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Featured Issue: Immigration Detention
4/7/2021This featured issue page provides updates on AILA’s efforts to reduce and phase out immigration detention. It also provides analyses, resources, and tools for representing and advocating on behalf of detained individuals.AILA Doc. No. 21031937Featured Issue: First 100 Days of the Biden Administration
4/2/2021AILA provides a featured issue page to track immigration-related executive and legislative announcements made during the first 100 days of the Biden administration.AILA Doc. No. 21011407Featured Issue: USCIS’s Blank Space Policy
4/1/2021In October 2019, USCIS began rejecting forms that left questions blank or did not use specific terminology to indicate that a question was inapplicable, upended long-standing practice, without notice. Learn more on this featured issue page.AILA Doc. No. 20102030Featured Issue: DHS and DOL Rules Altering the H-1B Process and Prevailing Wage Levels
3/12/2021On 1/15/21, DHS published an advance copy of a final USCIS rule on the H-1B visa program. As a result of a 1/20/21 memo issued by the White House Chief of Staff regarding review of pending regulatory actions, the rule, which has not yet been published in the Federal Register, will be withdrawn.AILA Doc. No. 20100701Featured Issue: Changes to USCIS Fee Schedule
1/29/2021On December 28, 2020, the government filed an unopposed motion for voluntary dismissal of its appeal in ILRC v. Wolf, thus the USCIS fee final rule will remain enjoined in its entirety. This issue page tracks resources related to this fluid situation.AILA Doc. No. 20073101Featured Issue: USCIS Budget Shortfall and Furloughs
3/5/2021This featured issue page tracks the status of USCIS's budget crisis and the need to hold the agency accountable to ensure transparency and fiscal responsibility. On 9/30/20, President Trump signed H.R.8337 which includes the Emergency Stopgap USCIS Stabilization Act.AILA Doc. No. 20071436** Resource Center: 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) **
4/8/2021This AILA featured issue page continuously gathers resources related to the impact of the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) on the AILA community as well as the immigrant community as a whole.AILA Doc. No. 20030201Featured Issue: The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
12/29/2020This Featured Issue page compiles resources on how the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) can be used to obtain immigration records as well as information on how to make a FOIA request to various immigration-related agencies. The page also includes noteworthy individual and organizational FOIAs.AILA Doc. No. 20022703Featured Issue: Healthcare Insurance Proclamation
1/4/2021AILA provides a resource page related to President Trump’s 10/4/19 presidential proclamation suspending entry of immigrants who “will financially burden the U.S. healthcare system.”AILA Doc. No. 19103100Featured Issue: FY2022 Cap-Subject H-1B Filing Season
4/8/2021This featured issue page tracks developments related to the FY2022 H-1B season. As of April 1, 2021, petitioners who were selected during the registration period will be able to file Form I-129 for H-1B Cap-Subject consideration.AILA Doc. No. 19102407Featured Issue: Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP)
4/2/2021Two years after the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) first began, new enrollments into this border processing program officially ended on January 20, 2021. Use this featured issue page to learn more about MPP and the process to wind down the program.AILA Doc. No. 19091660Featured Issue: FLRA Strips Immigration Judges of Collective Bargaining Rights
11/9/2020In 2019, DOJ petitioned the FLRA in an attempt to strip immigration judges (IJs) of their right to unionize. On November 2, 2020, the FLRA concluded that IJs are management officials and stripped them of their collective bargaining rights. This featured issue page provides additional resources.AILA Doc. No. 19081303Featured Issue: Legislation Impacting the Per-Country Numerical Limitation
12/23/2020At this time, there is no active legislation in Congress seeking to eliminate per country limitations. Although different versions of H.R.1044 and S.386 passed the House and Senate, this legislation has failed because the differences were not reconciled prior to the end of the congressional session.AILA Doc. No. 19080632Featured Issue: Public Charge Changes at USCIS, DOJ, and DOS
3/15/2021Use this AILA Featured Issue page to find resources on the Trump administration’s public charge changes. On March 11, 2021, DHS provided advance copy of a final rule removing the 2019 public charge regulatory text from the CFR and restoring the regulatory text that existed prior to the 2019 rule.AILA Doc. No. 19050634Featured Issue: Border Processing and Asylum
4/6/2021This featured issue page provides updates, analyses, and other resources on border processing and asylum policies, and AILA’s advocacy on the creation of a humane and fair border processing system for all individuals arriving at our southern border seeking safety.AILA Doc. No. 19032731Featured Issue: Conditions in CBP Custody
3/11/2021Resources related to conditions while in CBP custody and recent migrant deaths while in CBP custody. On October 24, 2020, CBP released statements regarding two separate incidents of agent-involved fatal shootings in Laredo, Texas, and San Diego, California.AILA Doc. No. 18122608Featured Issue: Denaturalization Efforts by USCIS
9/4/2020The Trump administration and the DOJ has increased its prosecution of denaturalization cases. Watch this page for updates and resources from AILA. And don't miss AILA's September 22 web seminar on defenses against denaturalization.AILA Doc. No. 18072705Featured Issue: Immigration Courts
3/29/2021The Trump administration’s policies, including the imposition of numerical quotas on immigration judges (IJs), continue to undermine the independence of IJs and weaken due process. This featured issue page provides updates, analyses, and other resources on the current state of immigration courts.AILA Doc. No. 13040204Featured Issue: Legalizing and Protecting Dreamers and TPS Recipients
3/19/2021Resources on legislative efforts to protect Dreamers and TPS recipients.AILA Doc. No. 17072035Navigate AILA.org
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