On March 8, 2023, the National Immigration Project, and several other immigration legal services and advocacy organizations sent a letter to leadership at the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice, calling on the agencies to...
President Biden pardoned thousands of people who were convicted on federal charges of simple possession of marijuana from 1992 to 2021. While these pardons are long overdue and necessary, they regrettably fail to protect many immigrants from negative...
In light of the Supreme Court’s rights-stripping decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, today, 156 immigration, criminal justice, and civil rights organizations sent a letter to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) urging the...
On May 4, 2022, USCIS issued a temporary final rule providing for automatic renewal of certain employment authorization documents (EADs) for up to 540 days, as long as the noncitizen timely submitted the renewal application. Previously, USCIS granted...
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) requested public input in April 2022 on specific processes, programs, regulations, collections of information, and policies for the agency to consider modifying, streamlining, expanding, or repealing in light...
On March 15, 2022, the National Immigration Project joined the Immigrant Legal Resource Center (ILRC) and American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) to express deep concern with increasing arguments by attorneys in the OPLA department that seek...
On December 10, 2021, the Biden administration's Family Reunification Task Force requested public input on how the government can prevent family separation from occurring again in the future. The request came more than three years after the Trump...