By Melissa Cruz, Immigration Impact U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) keeps making an inexcusable error: it has been deporting U.S. citizens by mistake. 70 potential U.S. citizens were de...
The Immigrants Journal – Vol. 145
The Immigrants Journal – Vol. 145 (Highlights) NYC Loses Jobs as Pandemic Recession Takes Growing Toll on Workers of Color Federal Court Orders Biden to Restore the ‘Remain in Mexico’ Progra...
Cities for Action Leaders call on Biden Administration to Protect Immigrants From 15 Countries Using Temporary Protected Status
Marchers demanding the Biden administration make progress on immigration reform, including Temporary Protected Status for Cameroonians living in the U.S. – Washington, D.C. – May 1, 2021 (...
USCIS Extends Evidence of Status for Conditional Permanent Residents to 24 Months
Starting Sept. 4, 2021, USCIS is extending the time that receipt notices can be used to show evidence of status from 18 months to 24 months for petitioners who properly file Form I-751, Petition to R...
Unaccompanied Minors Among Thousands Evacuated from Afghanistan
By Rebekah Wolf, Immigration Impact Officials from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) have confirmed that 34 unaccompanied minors from Afghanistan currently in the United States were am...
President Biden is Overseeing a Historic Decline in Legal Immigration
By Immigration Impact The Biden administration predicts that it will fail to issue many of the legal permanent resident visas—also known as green cards—allotted this year for immigrants who have b...
The Immigrants Journal – Vol. 144
The Immigrants Journal – Vol. 144 (Highlights) NYC Loses Jobs as Pandemic Recession Takes Growing Toll on Workers of Color Federal Court Orders Biden to Restore the ‘Remain in Mexico’ Progra...
Diversity Visa Lottery Winners Might Lose Chance to Come to the U.S. Due to Delays, Trump Policies
By Walter Ewing, Immigration Impact For the second year in a row, many winners of the diversity visa lottery face the prospect of losing their chance to come to the United States because the federal g...
‘Cruel, Unfair and Racist’: Black Immigrants Whose Fathers Are U.S. Citizens Push to Overturn Law That Keeps Them From Obtaining Citizenship
By Liz Vinson, SPL Center Behind the steel gates of a remote immigrant prison in Georgia lies a visitation room where detained people speak to visitors through a plexiglass window. There are messages ...
The Immigrants Journal – Vol. 143
The Immigrants Journal – Vol. 143 (Highlights) Weren’t Eligible for Unemployment Benefits? Apply for the Excluded Workers Fund Hispanics in Danger: A Growing Workplace Safety Crisis ICE Announ...