Category: USCIS
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The International Refugee Assistance Project has published this Explainer on the Travel Ban which : Prohibits the entry of immigrants and nonimmigrants into the U.S. from these 12 countries:● Afghanistan● Burma● Chad● Republic of the Congo● Equatorial Guinea● Eritrea● Haiti● Iran● Libya● Somalia● Sudan● Yemen Prohibits entry of immigrants and some nonimmigrants from these 7…
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David Bier, Director of Immigration Studies at the CATO Institute, has written this post which lists the number of personnel that are now assisting ICE. They are from DHS (Customs and Border Patrol, Homeland Security Investigations, USCIS) and DOJ (ATF, DEA, FBI, etc) along with state police, local law enforcement (both 287g and not 287g).…
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This policy alert from USCIS (August 19, 2025) clarifies that discretion that can be used to deny US immigration status changes (for example a green card holder who is applying to become a US citizen) if the individual has “support(ed) or promote(d) anti-American ideologies or activities.”
Immigration Insight 