Immigration News

In the dim glow of a Kyiv apartment, lit only by the flicker of a generator-powered lamp, a young IT specialist named Olena stares at her laptop screen. It’s November 2025, and the rolling blackouts, courtesy of relentless Russian missile strikes on Ukraine’s battered energy grid, have plunged the city into another night of enforced darkness.

Russia has sharply restricted the ability of most foreign nationals to obtain citizenship or residence permits, according to a presidential decree signed by Vladimir Putin last week.

The EOIR is opening a new Immigration Court in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on October 20, 2025.

Secretary Pete Hegsteth has approved the assignment of up to 600 military lawyers to serve as Temporary Immigration Judges.