January 9, 2018|Contributed by: Joseph & Hall P.C.
On January 8, 2018, the Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”) announced that it is ending the designation of Temporary Protected Status (“TPS”) for El Salvador. Nationwide, there are approximately 263, 500 Salvadorans with TPS currently. The Trump administration has taken away that protection, but it is giving Salvadorans until September 9, 2019, to leave the […]
December 28, 2017|Contributed by: Joseph & Hall P.C.
This holiday season, I would like to reflect on the past year in the world of immigration law. It has been a tumultuous one, to say the least. In late January, upon the inauguration of President Trump, there were a flurry of executive orders that aimed to restrict and isolate immigrants and further divide the […]
November 28, 2017|Contributed by: Courtney Sommer
On November 13 the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a ruling allowing the Trump administration’s travel ban to proceed in part. A Hawaii federal judge had previously blocked the newest travel ban from going into effect, but the 9th Circuit held that the Trump administration could limit the issuance of visas to individuals from […]
November 27, 2017|Contributed by: Courtney E. Butler, Esq.
On November 20, 2017, Acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Elaine Duke announced her decision to terminate Temporary Protected Status (“TPS”) for Haitians. The decision will take effect 18 months before the Haitian TPS designation terminates on July 22, 2019. DHS made its decision to terminate TPS for Haiti after reviewing the conditions upon which […]
November 22, 2017|Contributed by: Aaron C. Hall, Esq.
It’s no secret that Thanksgiving 2017 comes at a time of great challenge and incredible distress for many immigrants and their families. The anti-immigrant rhetoric and scapegoating continually flowing out the Trump Administration is matched by its harsh and restrictive policies. The president canceled DACA and Dreamers are now left counting the days until their […]
November 17, 2017|Contributed by: Joseph & Hall P.C.
As most people are aware, on September 5, 2017, the Trump administration announced that DACA will be rescinded on March 5, 2018. Applicants with DACA had until October 5 to deliver their renewal applications to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). USCIS received reports that the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) has identified USPS mail service […]
November 2, 2017|Contributed by: Jennifer Howard
Becoming a United States citizen is a memorable and meaningful experience—one that brings with it the right to obtain a U.S. passport to travel internationally and to seek protection and assistance from the U.S. government when abroad, the ability to serve on a jury when summoned, the ability to serve the country if and when […]
October 30, 2017|Contributed by: Courtney E. Butler, Esq.
On October 23, 2017, Representative Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) introduced a new bill, the Agricultural Guestworker Act (H.R. 4092), which would replace the current H-2A agricultural worker program with an H-2C visa program. This new program would be a temporary agricultural guestworker program that would encompass year-round agricultural and horticultural work. Importantly, the program would include […]
October 30, 2017|Contributed by: Jennifer Howard
On September 18, 2017, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published an announcement in the Federal Register that it would begin collecting the social media data of immigrants in an effort to “more effectively screen those coming to the country.” This new system went into effect on October 18, 2017, bringing with it concerns […]
October 27, 2017|Contributed by: Aaron C. Hall, Esq.
The New York Times reports that even though naturalization applications generally spike during presidential election years and then fall after the election, the volume of applications received by United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) for 2017 will be greater than during the 2016 election cycle: “In the first three quarters of the 2017 fiscal […]
