USCIS, Aug. 29, 2024 "Effective Aug. 28, DHS is establishing a new C40 category on Form I-766, Employment Authorization Document (EAD). The C40 category is for individuals with a pending Form I-914, Application for T Nonimmigrant Status, whose application...
USCIS, June 20, 2024 "We are extending the validity of certain Employment Authorization Documents (EADs) issued to Temporary Protected Status (TPS) beneficiaries under the designations of El Salvador, Honduras, Nepal, Nicaragua and Sudan through March 9...
This document is scheduled to be published in the Federal Register on 04/15/2024 "On February 14, 2024, President Joseph Biden issued a memorandum to the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Homeland Security (Secretary) determining that it was in the...
USCIS, Apr. 4, 2024 "Building on extensive modernization efforts that have streamlined and improved access to work permits for eligible noncitizens, USCIS today announced a temporary final rule (TFR) to increase the automatic extension period for certain...
USCIS, Oct. 27, 2023 "Certain renewal applicants who have filed Form I-765, Application for Employment Authorization, qualify for an automatic extension of their expiring employment authorization and/or employment authorization documents (EADs) while their...
Cyrus D. Mehta, Kaitlyn Box, Oct. 3, 2023 "In the face of Congressional inaction to fashion an immigration solution for the United States, the Administration does have broad authority to grant an employment authorization document (EAD) to noncitizens. It...
USCIS, Sept. 27, 2023 "U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is updating policy guidance in the USCIS Policy Manual regarding maximum validity periods for Employment Authorization Documents (EADs, Form I-766) issued to refugees and asylees, noncitizens...
Julia Preston, The Marshall Project, Sept. 8, 2023 "In the early 1990s, asylum seekers could receive work authorization as soon as they filed their claims. Fraudulent claims surged as migrants, often prompted by unscrupulous attorneys, filed for asylum just...
NILA, NWIRP, Ira Kurzban, Aug. 28, 2023 "On Friday, a federal district court granted nationwide class certification to Temporary Protected Status (TPS) applicants seeking to enforce their statutory right to a work permit during the many months that they...
Cyrus Mehta, Kaitlyn Box, June 19, 2023 "In our previous blog , we suggested several ways that the Biden administration could follow to allow nonimmigrant workers who have been laid off to remain in the U.S. As major tech companies continue to lay off workers...
USCIS, June 14, 2023 "...USCIS may provide employment authorization to beneficiaries of approved employment-based immigrant visa petitions who face delays due to backlogs in immigrant visa availability. Beneficiaries who face adverse circumstances resulting...
USCIS, May 3, 2023 "U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) today posted a Federal Register notice on the extension and expansion of eligibility for Deferred Enforced Departure (DED) for Hong Kong residents. The notice also explains how eligible...
Federal Register / Vol. 88, No. 48 / Monday, March 13, 2023 - "This notice announces that the Secretary of Homeland Security (Secretary) is suspending certain regulatory requirements for F–1 nonimmigrant students whose country of citizenship is Somalia...
NWIRP, NILA, Mar. 7, 2023 "What is the Garcia Perez v. USCIS lawsuit and what policies are challenged? Garcia Perez is a lawsuit filed in federal district court by five asylum applicants on behalf of a national class challenging the policies and practices...
USCIS, Jan. 23, 2023 "U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services today announced that certain asylum applicants can now file Form I-765, Application for Employment Authorization , online. Effective immediately, applicants for employment authorization under...