In February 2021, the US Citizenship Act of 2021 was introduced in the Senate and the House of Representatives (HR 1177).

There is a lot of information introduced about how the Citizenship Act of this year will enable US citizenship for TPS holders, DACA recipients, H-2A farmworkers, and the 11 million undocumented people...

In recent months, a Presidential Memorandum, leaked Department of State cables, and a Federal Register notice have detailed the Trump Administration’s plans to implement “Extreme Vetting” of individuals determined by consular officers to warrant additional scrutiny in connection with terrorism or other national security-related ineligibilities. Although it is impossible to know what the...

Under a new Department of Homeland Security (DHS) rule, undocumented immigrants must prove their residency in the United States or they could face expedited deportation. In some cases, the expedited deportation could be carried out before the person has an opportunity to come before a judge. The Trump administration announced the fast track deportation...

PRESS RELEASE - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - There have been widespread reports, including tweets from the President himself, that next week Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will be conducting mass round-ups of vulnerable families from Central America who fled to the U.S. to seek asylum and have since been ordered removed. While the word...

PRESS RELEASE - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - April 24, 2020 - TRUMP‘S NEW EXECUTIVE ORDER - On Wednesday, April 23rd, President Donald Trump signed and announced a new Executive Order (EO) temporarily banning (for 60 days), from entry into the US, those who are outside and who do not have a valid “immigrant”...

Presidents and chancellors of more than two dozen universities and colleges from across the Garden State sent a letter to the New Jersey Congressional delegation letting them know about the challenges they’ve faced over the past several years, which include recruiting and keeping international students, scholars and faculty. They say it’s because of changes...

On Sept. 5, 2017, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) initiated the orderly phase out of the program known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). DHS will provide a limited, six-month window during which it will consider certain requests for DACA and applications for work authorization, under...

Since his inauguration, President Donald Trump has spent his first 100 days in office issuing Executive Orders. Among them, Trump has signed two Executive Orders directing travel bans for non-U.S. citizens of certain Muslim-majority countries: on January 27, 2017, Executive Order 13769 (Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States));...

Globally, we have seen an uptick in tightened security at airports and borders. For some, it may almost feel like a post-9/11 environment. Emphasis has been placed on the enforcement of many existing policies within our own borders. One policy that is being enforced more broadly at this time is "Border Searches of Electronic...

On Tuesday, February 21st, 2017 two (2) guidance memos were singed by Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly implementing the President’s Executive Orders on immigration enforcement. Although much attention has been focused on the building of the border wall, these new memos direct the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to escalate harsh immigration enforcement nationwide....