The Trump Administration is taking steps to strip certain U.S. citizens of their U.S. citizenship
In recent news, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is seeking to strip several individuals of their U.S. citizenship who allegedly concealed a material fact regarding their prior sexual abuse against minors during the immigration process. These individuals are Jorge Luis Alvarado (Mexico), Alberto Mario Beleno (Colombia), Eleazar Corral Valenzuela (Mexico), Moises Herrera-Gonzalez (Mexico), and Emmanuel Olugbenga Omopariola (Nigeria). Their cases were originally brought t
End to the H-4 EAD?
It has been reported that the Trump Administration is planning to eliminate H-4 dependent spouse eligibility for employment authorization (i.e., the EAD) where the principal H-1B holder has an approved I-140 or where the principal's H-1B visa status has been extended beyond the 6 year H-1B visa status limit based on the pending PERM/I-140; this H-4 EAD eligibility originally became effective on May 26, 2015 and is codified in 8 CFR 214.2(h)(9)(iv), 8 CFR 274a.12(c)(26), and 8
Trump Administration Ends TPS Designation for Haiti
Today, the Trump Administration announced that Haiti will lose its TPS designation. This decision will affect approximately 60,000 people with their TPS "status" ultimately ending on July 22, 2019. Haiti was originally designated for TPS in 2010 after the country was devastated by an earthquake that left hundreds of thousands of inhabitants dead, displaced more than a million of people, and led to an outbreak of cholera. Although the U.S. Department of Homeland Security had
ATTENTION Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Renewal Applicants
If your DACA renewal application was rejected by USCIS due to a delay with the USPS mail service or if your DACA renewal application was rejected by USCIS despite having arrived to the designated filing location by the deadline, your application may now be accepted for processing by USCIS. Although initially the U.S. government said nothing could be done regarding these approximately 100 known rejected applications, on Wednesday, November 15, 2017, the U.S. Department of Home
What is this mysterious ASPIRE TPS Act? Is anybody looking out for TPS holders?
In case you are not aware, the Trump administration recently announced that Temporary Protected Status (TPS) would end for those people from Nicaragua on January 5, 2018 and that TPS for those people from Honduras will only be renewed until July 2018. An announcement regarding TPS for those people from Haiti is expected by Thanksgiving 2017 as this designation is set to expire on January 22, 2018. In light of these recent developments, several members of Congress (Rep. Yvett
