Coverage of asylum and refugee processes, TPS designations, U and T visas, DACA, and VAWA-based relief — including current policy shifts and adjudication trends.
With withholding of removal and a child turning 21, the green card path runs through a motion to reopen, narrowed by Matter of Yadav in 2026.
DACA renewal delays have a new litigation trigger: five months pending. Attorneys also explain why Judge Hanen's 'moot' order changes nothing.
Asylum delay lawsuits can backfire in 2026. Hacking tells a caller 10 years in: forcing a decision now risks immigration court and a third country.
The Rhode Island vacatur helps everyone on paper. Jim Hacking argues a named-plaintiff suit still moves a paused asylee green card faster. Here's why.
Firm resettlement bars asylum: if you can live permanently in a third country, a U.S. asylum claim can be a dead letter and risk a frivolous finding.
DACA recipients married to U.S. citizens: with advance parole stalled, file the I-130 and I-601A provisional waiver now instead of waiting.
Tricked into signing blank immigration forms? Withdrawing can trap the lie and trigger removal. Here's the safer path, and how T and U visas help.
Asylum is voluntary. If a lawyer or notario pressures you into a claim you don't believe in, you can refuse — and a frivolous filing carries permanent bars.
DACA renewal delays now run far past USCIS's posted times. Kuck, Bless, and Siskind are preparing a mass mandamus to force decisions on stuck I-821Ds.
After SCOTUS let DHS terminate the CHNV parole program in May 2025, USCIS is slow-walking I-485 cases for Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan, and Venezuelan parolees who came in under Biden — especially anyone with a prior removal. The fix attorneys are using: sue on the work card, leave the green card alone.
USCIS rescinded Matter of Z-R-Z-C- in 2022, so a TPS holder who returns on Form I-512T is now 'inspected and admitted' for INA § 245(a). That fixes the entry problem — not the unlawful-status, unauthorized-work, and continuous-lawful-status bars in INA § 245(c) that quietly disqualify most pending-asylum and out-of-status applicants.
An applicant who got her marriage-based green card in April and withdrew her pending affirmative asylum case in May still received a USCIS letter demanding the new asylum filing fee. The fix turns on where she sent the withdrawal — and where she did not.
Roughly 50,000 people in Kuwait have lost their nationality under Decree-Law No. 116/2024 since the Emir suspended Parliament in May 2024. For those already in the United States, the loss of citizenship triggers U.S. visa revocations — and a narrow set of remaining legal options.