This Community Alert is intended to assist practitioners and clients with filing fee-related benefit requests with USCIS. The first section of this Community Alert, titled "USCIS Trends," is designed ...

The Board of Immigration Appeals, or BIA, recently issued a precedent decision setting forth standards for reopening a case based on a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel. Matter of Melgar, 28 ...

Immigrant survivors of certain qualifying crimes are able to obtain a U Visa in certain circumstances. One of the requirements includes being helpful, having been helpful, or is likely to be helpful ...

In the afternoon of March 15, 2025, an executive order invoking the AEA related to members of TDA was published on the White House website. The executive order had been signed the evening of March 14, ...

On Feb. 18, 2025, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) issued a directive encouraging the increased use of third-country removals against individuals granted withholding of removal under the ...

Under the class action settlement agreement in Castañon Nava v. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) must end its unlawful practice of making “collateral ...

The Supreme Court issued a decision in Pereira v. Sessions, No. 17-459, --S. Ct. -- 2018 WL 3058276 (U.S. June 21, 2018) on June 21, 2018, which could make cancellation of removal available to many ...

The Board of Immigration Appeals recently issued a decision in Matter of Garcia, 28 I&N Dec. 693 (BIA 2023). In this precedential decision, the BIA held that the controlling circuit law in immigration ...

Since returning to office, the Trump administration has issued a wave of executive orders, policy actions, memoranda, and guidance documents that significantly impact immigration law and the ...

SILVER SPRING, Maryland — The Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. (CLINIC), welcomes a federal court ruling in CLINIC v. Rubio vacating the Trump administration’s blanket suspension of immigrant ...

Since 1997, immigration law has required every petitioner in a family-based petition to complete an affidavit of support on behalf of the intending immigrant. The sponsor must either demonstrate the ...

As it has for more than 30 years, CLINIC will fight for the rights of immigrants. CLINIC trains legal representatives who provide high-quality and affordable immigration legal services. We develop and ...