USCIS extended TPS-related work permits (EADs) to July 10, 2026 for Haiti, Syria, Burma, Somalia, Yemen, Ethiopia & South Sudan. It's a temporary placeholder for I-9/E-Verify/SAVE while lower courts implement the Supreme Court's Mullin v. Doe ruling, not an official termination date. Check the USCIS...
New USCIS proposed rule implements the 2022 Reform & Integrity Act: ends the "troubled business" pathway, expands fraud-detection/revocation power, tightens regional-center oversight, regulates promoters. 60-day comment period. More info....
The Supreme Court ruled today against Trump's executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship, relying on a long-settled understanding of the 14th Amendment and federal law to affirm that anyone born in the U.S., with very limited exceptions, is a citizen. It's the second major...
On 25.Jun.2026, SCOTUS ruled 6-3 in two immigration cases. In Mullin v. Doe, it held that TPS termination decisions are not subject to judicial review, clearing the way to end protections for ~350K Haitians and ~6K Syrians. In Mullin v. Al Otro Lado, it held...
A proposed rule issued by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) would increase filing fees for naturalization. The rule proposes $1,330 for paper applications and $1,280 for online filings and eliminates the reduced fee for low-income households. More info....
Judge Leo T. Sorokin denied the government's motion to stay his ruling vacating the $100,000 H1B fee requirement. However, he granted a limited administrative stay pending a possible emergency appeal to the First Circuit, if filed by 18.Jun.2026. More updates to come....
Following the 08.Jun.2026 court decision vacating the $100,000 H1B payment requirement, DHS has announced that it will comply with the order while considering its next steps. As things stand, employers appear able to proceed with affected H1B filings without the additional fee, subject to any...
A welcome development for EB1A applicants: the government has dropped its appeal of Mukherji in the Eighth Circuit. The broader challenge to USCIS’s “final merits” approach remains litigated elsewhere, so this is an important step, but not yet a nationwide resolution. https://www.murthy.com/2026/01/29/district-court-rules-uscis-use-of-final-merits-determination-in-eb1a-petitions/...
A federal judge has struck down the Trump Administration’s $100,000 fee on new H1B petitions, ruling that the fee is an unauthorized tax....
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....
