The Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) made a new interactive EOIR Policy Manual available online, EOIR new policy manual
The DHS announced that it will not defend the new public charge rule of the Trump Administration in court, thus reverting to the 1999 public charge rule.
President Joe Biden issued a Presidential Proclamation rescinding President Donald Trump’s Executive Order barring the entry of most immigrants to the United States.
The Second Circuit cleared the way for ordering the Board of Immigration Appeals to make unpublished decisions available under FOIA.
The Supreme Court will review the Trump public charge rule, but it is unclear whether the Biden Administration will seek to defend the rules.
The USCIS is experincing delays issuing receipts for some applications filed at USCIS Lockbox facilities.
In October 2020 and December 2020, the DOJ appointed a combined 34 new immigration judges to serve on a combined 24 immigration courts.
On September 29, 2020, Judge Jeffrey S. White of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California entered a preliminary injunction against the new USCIS rules on fees and fee waivers, preventing them from taking effect on October 2
On August 25, 2020, President Donald Trump announced that he will nominate Chad Wold to be the Secretary of Homeland Security. Chad Wolf has been serving as acting Secretary of Homeland Security since November 13, 2019.
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