US Immigration

A trade association in the US has filed a lawsuit in district court following changes to policy by the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) that have resulted in H-1B US visas being granted for months or even days as opposed to three years, which had been the standard requested period. In some instances, notices […]

The federal government has given the City and County of Denver almost three-quarters of $1 million after a successful rebuking of the attempt by the Department of Justice to penalize some cities in the US for failing to cooperate with immigration enforcement. The office of Jeff Sessions, the Attorney General of the US, approved the

On Wednesday, a bill targeting Philadelphia and other municipalities in Pennsylvania, which refuse to hold undocumented immigrants in detention without criminal warrants, moved on from a state House committee. The bill, intended to punish so-called ‘sanctuary cities,’ was passed in 2017 by the PA Senate. The new approval now sees it heading for a vote

The Vice President of the US, Mike Pence, has told the leaders of three countries in Central America that the US will give greater aid to boost their nations’ economies if they make more effort to combat illegal immigration. A large number of the illegal border crossings in recent times have come from the trio

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has dropped the practice of coordinating plans for immigrant families seeking asylum in Arizona following release from detention but still waiting for a court decision on their fate. Until Sunday, the agency conducted reviews, including the confirmation of bus routes, communication with members of families, coordinating with NGOs, and ensuring

The Supreme Court took up a new immigration dispute on Wednesday as it contemplates the circumstances in which people awaiting deportation from the US can be detained by the federal government once they have finished sentences received for criminal convictions. The nine justices were to hear an hour of arguments as part of an appeal

According to Breitbart News, House Majority Leader, Kevin McCarthy, will introduce a bill this week to fund the wall on the border between the US and Mexico, which has long been a promise of President Donald Trump. The bill would set up the midterm elections next month as a kind of referendum on the Trump

Four months after US Immigration officials detained Ecuador immigrant, Pablo Villavicencio, as he delivered pizza to the military base Fort Hamilton and failed to produce identification, the deportation case against him has been dismissed at the federal level. The Legal Aid Society now intends to help Villavicencio, who was held in detention for 53 days,

A brother and sister in Waterloo have been charged with organizing a sham marriage to prevent immigration officials from deporting the former from the US. Last week, a grand jury indictment was filed alleging that 27-year-old Selmir Salkanovic, a citizen of Bosnia, overstayed his tourist visa last year and that he and his sister, Selena

Border Patrol released hundreds of immigrant families over the weekend. According to officials, many were apprehended along the Arizona/Mexico border in large groups, with over 100 people, mainly immigrants from Guatemala dropped off at a Tucson church. The release of almost 700 immigrants, primarily parents with children or pregnant women, seems to be part of

Dennis Herrera, San Francisco’s City Attorney, says that the city has won a legal victory against the US government in the fight over an immigration law, which was used to deny San Francisco receiving a federal grant by the White House. Judge William Orrick from the US Court for the Northern District of California ruled