The Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) released its case completion statistics for fiscal year 2019 on October 10, 2019. From October 1, 2019, through September 30, 2019, the EOIR completed more than 275,000 cases. This is the second highest number of completed cases in EOIR’s history, and roughly 80,000 more completed cases than fiscal year 2018.
The Department of Justice released its immigration-related prosecution statistics for fiscal year 2019 on October 17, 2019. The statistics track the number of charges brought under 8 U.S.C. 1326, 8 U.S.C. 1325, and 8 U.S.C. 1324 from October 1, 2018, through September 30, 2019.
Submitted by Eliza Grinberg on October 21, 2019 - 12:59pm
I recently received an email from the Immigrant’s List about an interesting new piece of immigration legislation being considered by the U.S. Senate. The legislation is being supported by Immigrant’s List founding board member Ira J. Kurzban, one of the preeminent scholars of U.S. immigration law.
On October 11, 2019, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Kevin McAleenan announced that he was stepping down from his post. McAleenan has served as acting Secretary since April 11, 2019.
On October 11, 2019, the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) held an investiture ceremony to swear in 27 new immigration judges We will the courts receiving new immigration judges in alphabetical order after first examining the new judges in New Jersey and New York City immigration courts.
On September 30, 2019, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that it would provide military naturalization services at four overseas military bases. These bases were chosen based on the USCIS international field offices that remain open after the USCIS reduced its overseas footprint.
Submitted by Eliza Grinberg on October 14, 2019 - 12:51pm
On October 11, 2019, Judge George B. Daniels of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York issued a nationwide universal injunction against the implementation of the new public charge rule, which was slated to go into effect on October 15, 2019. The SDNY injunction is one of three injunctions against the public charge rule issued on the same day.
The Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) will establish its Atlanta Annex on W. Peachtree Street as a new immigration court, effective October 15, 2019.
On September 9, 2019, the U.S. Department of State (DOS) published the Visa Bulletin for October 2019 – the first immigrant visa bulletin of fiscal year 2020. The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) subsequently determined that nearly all family-sponsored and employment-based adjustment of status applications must use the favorable dates for filing from the October Visa Bulletin to determine eligibility for filing for adjustment of status during the month. The lone exception – the F2A preference – has current final action dates for October 2019.
President Donald Trump has proposed a refugee ceiling of 18,000 for fiscal year 2020, which is significantly lower than in previous years. The Acting Director of the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), Ken Cuccinelli, released a statement on the refugee ceiling.
