October 13, 2026: The new public charge rule took effect on September 18, 2026 and requires officers to perform a forward-looking, case-by-case review weighing age, health, family status, skills, education,…
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The Board of Immigration Appeals held in Matter of B-S-A-N- (30 I&N Dec. 145 (BIA 2026) that Immigration Judges should generally deny asylum applications filed by nationals of highly developed, democratic countries…
September 29, 2026: The Supreme Court on Tuesday let President Donald Trump’s administration continue deporting people to countries other than their own for now, while the justices consider whether the policy…
August 28, 2026: The Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) has overturned a 14-year-old precedential decision, limiting an important pathway to permanent residence for certain long-residing noncitizens, including Deferred Action for Childhood…
September 30, 2026: Expedited removal is a process by which low-level immigration officers can summarily remove certain noncitizens from the United States without a hearing before an immigration judge. Undocumented…
September 14, 2026: New York Attorney General Letitia James announced that a coalition of 22 states and the District of Columbia filed a federal lawsuit challenging the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) final…
On September 14, 2026, the District Court of Massachusetts enjoined the implementation of the Final Rule described below eliminating duration of status for F, J, and I nonimmigrant visas; therefore,…
On August 6, 2026, President Trump signed an executive order titled “Ending Birth Tourism,” directing the Department of State and the Department of Homeland Security to “take such actions and…
August 11, 2026: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is introducing an interim final rule (IFR) that allows U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to mandate electronic filing, or e-filing,…
August 5, 2026: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is clarifying that benefit requestors should establish eligibility for an immigration benefit at the time they file a benefit request. Generally,…
