Applicants for the DV–2020 DV program must submit entries electronically at dvlottery.state.gov between noon, Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) (GMT–4), Wednesday, October 3, 2018, and noon, Eastern Standard Time (EST) (GMT–5), Tuesday, November 6, 2018. Only one entry per person will be allowed and no late entries or paper entries will be accepted during the registration…

On his first day on the job on the Supreme Court, Brett Kavanaugh took a position in favor of a 1996 immigration law that allows the government to indefinitely detain immigrants who committed minor crimes at any point in time, including years or decades later, without bail hearings. Neil Gorsuch, meanwhile, cautioned against government overreach….

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced the agency will celebrate Constitution Day and Citizenship Day, observed on Sept. 17, with over 260 naturalization ceremonies across the country. Approximately, 45,000 lawful permanent residents will become America’s newest citizens during the annual commemoration honoring the signing of the U.S. Constitution 231 years ago on Sept. 17,…

On September 11, 2018, USCIS began applying a new policy to allow the USCIS adjudicators discretion to deny a request for an immigration benefit without first issuing a Request for Evidence (RFE) or a Notice of Intent to Deny (NOID). The new policy will allow for USCIS to deny an application or petition without giving…

The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas – Brownsville Division on Friday, August 31, 2018, issued an unexpected reprieve for the DACA program which will continue to operate for now. The decision was issued almost exactly a year after President Donald Trump opted to end the DACA program. U.S. District Court Judge…

Judge John D. Bates of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia issued an order in NAACP v. Trump on Friday August 18, 2018 that partially stays its original order for the full restoration of the DACA program as to new DACA applications and applications for advance parole, but not as to renewal…

WASHINGTON –The Internal Revenue Service today (August 22, 2018 ) announced a new format for individual tax transcripts that will redact personally identifiable information from the Form 1040 series to better protect taxpayer data. This new transcript replaces the previous format and will be the default format available via Get Transcript Online, Get Transcript by…

The U.S. Army has halted the purge of foreign born soldiers who were recruited through a program known as Military Accessions Vital to National Interest ( MAVNI) that offers citizenship to skilled immigrants in exchange for military service. The recent expulsion policy that abruptly discharged dozens of recruits from the Service is the Army’s effort…

The Trump administration failed again to convince a federal judge that there’s a legitimate reason to rescind legal protections for hundreds of thousands of young undocumented immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children and seek to avoid deportation. U.S. District Judge John Bates in Washington said last Friday, August 3, 2018, that a…

According to a recent report by researchers at Syracuse University immigrants in the state of New York state have the greatest likelihood of engaging a lawyer and the lowest rate of deportation orders of any state with an immigration court, The school’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) examined government data for all immigration court cases…