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…
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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…
The federal government’s hunt for immigrants is ramping up. Each month, private contractors receive tens of thousands of names from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and are asked to…
Expedited removal and regular removal are both deportation processes, but they differ significantly in their procedures and the time frame for which they apply. Expedited removal, under 8 U.S.C. § 1225(b)(1), is…
The Department of Homeland Security and the Internal Revenue Service finalized an agreement Monday, April 7, 2025 to provide sensitive taxpayer data to federal immigration authorities such as ICE. As…
The number of cases awaiting resolution before the Immigration Court climbed to a new all-time high of 445,607 as of the end of April 2015, according to very timely government…
During fiscal year 2012, U.S. Department of Homeland Security – Immigration & Custom Enforcement removed or deported 409,849 individuals from the United States. Unfortunately, many individuals don’t know what to…
Starting September 3, 2013, the Department of State will transition to an online immigrant visa application. Immigrant visa applicants will apply online using Form ds260 (Application for Immigrant Visa and…
Petitioning for my Spouse Q1: I am a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident in a same-sex marriage to a foreign national. Can I now sponsor my spouse for a…
