Federal Court Strikes Down USCIS Benefit Adjudication Pause

On 05.Jun.2026, the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island vacated USCIS policies that imposed a hold on asylum and immigration-benefit adjudications for applicants from the Travel Ban / “high-risk” countries, including the 01.Jan.2026 memorandum extending the hold to additional countries.



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