USCIS PM Halts All Asylum Applications and All Benefit Applications from "High-Risk" Countries

USCIS issued a policy memorandum (PM-602-0192) placing a hold, pending comprehensive review, on all asylum applications for all applicants and all pending benefit applications for people from the 19 countries named in Presidential Proclamation 10949. It also directs re-review of all approved benefit requests for people from those countries who entered the U.S. on or after 1/20/21.