Immigration News

We discuss a troubling Austrian asylum case where an Afghan asylum seeker’s application appears to have been rejected because he did not “act” gay.

Clara L. Provost was appointed the new Chief of the U.S. Border Patrol. Chief Provost, a 23-year veteran at CBP, had been acting Chief since April 2017.

On August 7, 2018, the Uzbek government of President Mirziyoyev proposed a rule to abolish exit visas, a legacy of the Soviet Union.

The CBP apprehended 445 illegally crossing the U.S.-Canada border in the first half a 2018, a 142-percent increase from the same period in 2017

In this post, we address threats to the independence of immigration judges in light of IJ Morley being removed from the Castro-Tum case by EOIR

The DOS added five participating institutions to the list of institutions for its EducationUSA Academy program in summer 2019.

The USCIS announced that it had returned all FY 2019 H1B cap-subject petitions that were not selected in the H1B lottery.

The USCIS is delaying implementation of its new NTA issuance policies until its components complete new operational guidance for implementing them.

On July 24, 2018, CNN reported [link]1 that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has instructed U.S. Attorney’s offices to not use the term “`undocumented’ immigrants.” CNN included the guidance with the article [PDF version]. Although the CNN report does not specify the scope of the guidance until the penultimate passage of the article, the original document in fact applies to terminology used in press releases issued by U.S. Attorney’s Offices. In this post, I will briefly examine the DOJ guidance posted by CNN. The DOJ email instructs U.S. Attorney’s offices to follow the definitions in section 101 of the Immigration