U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced today that it is extending until January 31, 2021 its relaxed enforcement of the normal requirement to physically inspect the original documents presented by new hires during the I-9 process and thus allow eligible employers…
Congress has passed the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021. The law funds the U.S. government (including immigration operations) through FY 2021, and extends four expiring immigration programs. The law also creates a second stimulus check program for U.S. taxpayers, including eligible…
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) will continue to implement the Trump Administration’s ban on “non-essential” travel across U.S. land borders and ferry travel with Mexico and Canada through January 21, 2021, according to a set of notifications to be published in the Federal Register. The…
In its ongoing response to the COVID-19 pandemic, USCIS is further extending its 60-day deadline extension policy for responses to various agency actions to January 31, 2021. The accommodation will continue to be available to stakeholders responding to or filing the following: …
A federal district court in the District of Columbia set aside a fast-track Department of Labor regulation that significantly restructured the prevailing wage system for the H-1B, E-3 and H-1B1 nonimmigrant programs and PERM labor certification. The district court is…
The Department of Homeland Security will continue to preserve Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designations for nationals of El Salvador, Haiti, Honduras, Nepal, Nicaragua, and Sudan given that the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has not yet issued an anticipated directive…
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has taken steps to comply with a December 4, 2020 New York federal district court order requiring the agency to restore the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program to its 2012 form and to provide…
The Department of Labor has issued guidance on how the agency will comply with the two federal court orders issued this week, which block implementation of its October 8, 2020 prevailing wage rule. The fast-tracked rule had significantly and immediately increased government prevailing…
Today, Judge Nicholas Garaufis of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York ordered the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to implement the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program as it existed prior to September 2017, including by accepting both new DACA applications…
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has reinstated two lower court preliminary injunctions that temporarily bar enforcement of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) public charge rule in several states and Washington DC. The case is State of…