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...
USCIS Has Been Busy Expanding Access to Legal Immigration and Restoring Some Humanitarian Protections
Immigration reform protesters demonstrate outside the White House calling for no further deportations and a means to gain legal residency and a path to citizenship. – Washington, DC – October ...
National Battle for Citizenship Path Marches Through New York City
Immigration reform protesters demonstrate outside the White House calling for no further deportations and a means to gain legal residency and a path to citizenship. – Washington, DC – October ...
As Attempted Border Crossings Surge, New Biden Plan Speeds Up Asylum Approval and Deportation
By Julia Ainsley, NBC News WASHINGTON — As the number of migrants stopped at the southern border surges to the highest level in two decades, the Biden administration has drafted a 21-point plan to w...
Senator Chuck Schumer Proposes Decriminalization of Marijuana at the Federal Level
By Victoria Falk Just a few months after New York’s Governor, Andrew Cuomo, signed legislation on March 31, 2021, legalizing recreational marijuana use for adults in New York State, Senator Chuck Sc...
Redesignation Allows Additional Eligible Somalis To Apply for TPS and Employment Authorization Documents
Pending desperate people at the Dadaab refugee camp where thousands of Somalians wait for help because of hunger on August 07, 2011, in Dadaab, Somalia. (Shutterstock) WASHINGTON—The Department of H...