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According to FY2018 DOS statistics , "DOS rejected 13,450 applications for immigrant visas in FY2018 based on a determination that the applicant could become a "public charge," a 316 percent increase from FY2017 when it denied 3,237 applications...

From the Center for Migration Studies - "In a comment submitted to the federal government on the proposed rule regarding public charge determinations, the Center for Migration Studies of New York (CMS) argued that the rule was overly broad and would...

Democracy Forward, Nov. 28, 2018 - "Today the City of Baltimore filed suit against the Trump Administration for unlawfully and secretly changing the State Department’s definition of “public charge,” a provision in immigration law...

Seven prominent historians filed this comment with the Federal Register regarding the proposed "Public Charge" rule: "We contend that expanding the public charge grounds of inadmissibility, adjustment of status and deportation would break...

Cyrus Mehta, Oct. 15, 2018 - "The notion of public charge has existed in our immigration laws since more than a century. The Trump administration’s new proposed public charge rule , however, interprets “is likely at any time to become...

Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 196 / Wednesday, October 10, 2018 - "The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) proposes to prescribe how it determines whether an alien is inadmissible to the United States under section 212(a)(4) of the Immigration...

This document is scheduled to be published in the Federal Register on 10/10/2018 "The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) proposes to prescribe how it determines whether an alien is inadmissible to the United States under section 212(a)...

Sept. 24, 2018 - The proposed rule has yet to be published in the Federal Register, but DHS posted this link on Saturday, Sept. 22, 2018. CLINIC posted the following analysis: "Stemming from a 2017 Trump Administration executive order encouraging...

AILA, NILC and CLINIC, Aug. 28, 2018 - "The American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc., and the National Immigration Law Center write to express our concern over current policy relating to the assessment...

Victoria Macchi, Aline Barros, VOA, July 10, 2018 - "By the end of July, the Trump administration is expected to take a step closer to another sweeping policy shift that could block millions of foreigners from coming to the United States or from...

Victoria Macchi, Aline Barros, VOA, July 10, 2018 - "By the end of July, the Trump administration is expected to take a step closer to another sweeping policy shift that could block millions of foreigners from coming to the United States or from...

DOS, Jan. 4, 2018 - "UNCLASSIFIED 18 STATE 942 January 4, 2018 From: SECSTATE WASHDC Subject: Update to 9 FAM 302.8 Public Charge - INA 212(A)(4) 2. Guidance at 9 FAM 302.8 has been updated and reorganized. 3. INA 212(a)(4)(B) continues...

Yeganeh Torbati, Reuters, Feb. 9, 2018 - "The Trump administration is considering making it harder for foreigners living in the United States to get permanent residency if they or their American-born children use public benefits such as food assistance...

NI ck Miroff, Washington Post, Mar. 28, 2017 - "Immigrants who accept almost any form of welfare or public benefit, even popular tax deductions, could be denied legal U.S. residency under a proposal awaiting approval by the Trump administration,...

MPI, June 12, 2018 - "A Trump administration draft proposed rule affecting lawfully present immigrants who use public benefits or tax credits for which they or their dependents are eligible would sharply expand the number who could find it more difficult...