A federal district court in the Southern District of Texas has confirmed that its injunction blocking the Department of Homeland Security’s 2012 DACA memorandum also blocks the agency’s new DACA regulation, published in August 2022. The DACA regulation will not…
On October 5, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit upheld a lower court’s finding that the Department of Homeland Security’s 2012 memorandum establishing the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program is substantively and procedurally unlawful, but the…
The final regulation is intended to reinstate the DACA program largely unchanged in the wake of its invalidation by a federal court last year. The rule is scheduled to be published on August 30 and to take effect on October…
The Department of Homeland Security is proposing a new public charge rule that would largely codify its existing policy on the public charge ground of inadmissibility. Consistent with longstanding policy, the new rule would deem a foreign national ineligible to…
In its ongoing response to the COVID-19 pandemic, USCIS is further extending and revising its deadline extension policy for responses to various agency actions to March 26, 2022. The accommodations, which were initially announced in March 2020 as a means of minimizing…
The U.S. House of Representatives today passed the Build Back Better Act (H.R. 5376), a budget reconciliation measure containing significant immigration relief and fee provisions. The bill now moves to the Senate for consideration. If enacted, the bill would create a…
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is publishing a proposed regulation to establish the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program through the administrative process of notice and comment rulemaking. The proposed rule will be published in tomorrow’s Federal Register; an advance copy is…
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 15, 2022. The accommodation will continue to be available to stakeholders responding to or filing the following: Requests for…
Summary The agenda reflects the regulatory priorities of the Biden Administration for the coming months.The Department of Homeland Security is planning a proposed rule to amend aspects of the H-1B program, including a redefinition of the employer-employee relationship, rules for…
On July 16, a federal district court in Texas issued a permanent injunction against the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program and directed the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to correct some procedural legal defects in the program. However,…