USCIS has received a sufficient number of petitions needed to reach the congressionally mandated 65,000 H-1B visa regular cap and the 20,000 H-1B visa U.S. advanced degree exemption, known as the mast...
DHS Publishes Federal Register Notice Announcing the Extensions of Re-Registration Periods for Temporary Protected Status for El Salvador, Haiti, Honduras, Nepal, Nicaragua and Sudan
Editorial credit: christianthiel.net / Shutterstock.com WASHINGTON – Consistent with its September announcement, the Department of Homeland Security today published a Federal Register notice reite...
USCIS Changes Filing Location for Requests for Premium Processing for Pending Immigrant Petitions for Alien Workers
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced today a change in the filing location for Form I-907, Request for Premium Processing, for currently pending Form I-140, Immigrant Petit...
SCOTUS to Decide When Courts Can Review Decisions about Immigration Relief… Again
By Suchita Mathur | December 15, 2023 | Immigration Impact Families are complicated. Especially during the holidays, that’s something we can all agree on. But most of us can’t – or will never ...
Looking Back at Our Immigration Wins and Big Moments from 2023
By Gabe Ortiz | December 14, 2023 Next year’s presidential election means that 2024 is poised to be an incredibly significant – and busy – year for our movement. But before rolling up our sleeve...
What We Know About the Senate Negotiations That Could Wreck Asylum in the US
Members of the U.S. Senate are currently negotiating a deal to continue funding the federal government next year, as well as providing military aid to Ukraine But the cost could be the federal governm...
Lawsuits Prompt Immigration Agencies to Publish Critical Documents in Their FOIA Libraries
Editorial credit: Nicole Glass Photography / Shutterstock.com By Raul Pinto | Dec 1, 2023 | Immigration Impact Last September, U.S. Customs and Border Protection agreed to publish past versions of...
Anti-Immigrant Focus of Donald Trump and Texas GOP Combine to Escalate Dangers to U.S.
Editorial credit: lev radin / Shutterstock.com Washington DC – Following Texas Gov Greg Abbott’s endorsement of Donald Trump, his signing of the state’s new extreme anti-immigrant bill, and Tr...
Texas Gov. Abbott Endorses Trump with Shared Chaotic, Racist, and Intentionally Deadly Approach to Immigration
Editorial credit: Jeff Schultes / Shutterstock.com By Gabe Ortiz | November 21, 2023 Attacking and exploiting immigrants for political gain is a unifying issue for Republicans and that was on full dis...
Labor Shortage Can Be Fixed by Letting Asylum Seekers Get Work Permits Sooner, Business Leaders Say
Posted by Adriel Orozco | Nov 20, 2023 When asylum seekers come to the United States, they want to work—but an outdated immigration statute is making that more difficult than it needs to be. Afte...