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Here’s a 15-minute video about immigration by Jeff Ballmer, ex-Microsoft executive. It keys off 2022 data – so a bit dated – but conceptually accurate.
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The new USCIS citizenship test recently initiated by USCIS is longer and more difficult. Recent statistics comparing denial rates during the Biden administration with those during the Trump administration show an increase in denials from 7.9% to 9.9%. In addition to a more difficult citizenship test, there is now more scrutiny of the applicants social…
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WASHINGTON— The Department of Homeland Security is announcing a final rule, effective Oct. 2, 2025, to streamline the filing process for certain temporary agricultural worker petitions.The new rule allows U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to begin processing petitions for H-2A temporary agricultural workers while the Department of Labor reviews the requested employment to ensure it would…
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The Center for Immigration Studies Executive Director, Mark Krikorian, interviewed the Director of USCIS, Jospeh Edlow. Watch the video of the conversation here. Topics covered include: asylum abuse, new screening and vetting measures, Temporary Protected Status (TPS), chain migration, and fraud.
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This article says that international student enrollment in universities in the United States is down 19% this year to 313,000 for their freshman year.
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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.”
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