Feb. 17, 2022 DHS Stakeholder email text: " The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will issue a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) that would regulate how DHS applies the public charge ground of inadmissibility. The proposed rule would provide fair...
This document is scheduled to be published in the Federal Register on 11/17/2021 "On October 11, 2019, the Department of State (“the Department”) published an interim final rule (“IFR”) regarding visa ineligibility on public charge grounds and accepted public...
Supreme Court, Oct. 29, 2021 "20-1775 ARIZONA V. SAN FRANCISCO, CA DECISION BELOW: 944 F.3d 773 Limited to Question 1 presented by the petition CERT. GRANTED 10/29/2021 QUESTION PRESENTED: Under the Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C. §§1101...
This document is scheduled to be published in the Federal Register on 08/23/2021. "Under provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) administers the public charge ground of inadmissibility as it pertains to...
USCIS, Apr. 12, 2021, Renaud letter to Interagency Partners "This letter provides key information about a change in the way the Department of Homeland Security (OHS) is administering the public charge ground of inadmissibility. My message to you is simple...
City & County of San Francisco v. USCIS, No. 19-17213 California v. Dep’t of Homeland Sec., No. 19-17214 Washington v. Dep’t of Homeland Sec., No. 19-35914
DOS, Mar. 26, 2021 "On July 29, 2020, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York enjoined the Department of State from “enforcing, applying, implementing, or treating as effective” the Department’s October 2019 interim final rule...
Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 48 / Monday, March 15, 2021 "This final rule removes the regulations resulting from a final rule issued in August 2019, which has since been vacated by a Federal district court. DATES: This rule is effective on March 9, 2021...
USCIS, Mar. 10, 2021 "USCIS is no longer applying the August 2019 Public Charge Final Rule. As a consequence, among other changes, USCIS will apply the public charge inadmissibility statute consistent with the 1999 Interim Field Guidance . In other words...
Amy L. Howe, Mar. 9, 2021 "Just over two weeks after the Supreme Court announced that it would review the Trump administration’s “public charge” rule, which governs the admission of immigrants into the United States, the case (as well as two others presenting...
Doe v. Trump "We conclude that the Proclamation was within the President’s statutory authority and therefore reverse the district court’s order enjoining the Proclamation’s implementation."
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, Dec. 2, 2020 "California Attorney General Xavier Becerra today secured an order from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirming a prior preliminary injunction in a multistate lawsuit challenging the Trump Administration...
Bernie Pazanowski, Bloomberg, Nov. 2, 2020 "The Trump administration’s new public charge rule, which expanded the definition of immigrants who are inadmissible to the U.S. because of doubts they could be self-sustaining, has been struck down by a federal...
Cook County v. Wolf, Nov. 2, 2020 "In sum, the Final Rule is vacated, and the vacatur is not limited to the State of Illinois. ... Given the Seventh Circuit’s holding that, despite the Supreme Court’s stay, the Final Rule was substantively and procedurally...
State Department, Aug. 7, 2020 "On Wednesday, July 29, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York enjoined the Department of State from “enforcing, applying, implementing, or treating as effective” the Department’s October 2019...