Jul. 22, 2021
USCIS announced today that Temporary Protected Status (TPS) applicants who are eligible nationals of Burma, Somalia, Syria, Venezuela, or Yemen, or individuals without nationality who last habitually resided in one of those countries, can now file Form I-821, Application for Temporary Protected Status, online, if they are applying for TPS for the first time.
When filing an initial TPS application, applicants can also request an Employment Authorization Document by submitting a completed Form I-765, Request for Employment Authorization, with their Form I-821.
At this time, the option to file Form I-821 online is only available to initial TPS applicants from these five countries. These applications will be the first forms available for concurrent filing online.
All other TPS applicants and current beneficiaries who are re-registering under the extension of a TPS designation must continue to file a paper Form I-821. If an initial TPS applicant from a country other than Burma, Syria, Venezuela, or Yemen or a re-registrant files Form I-821 online, USCIS will deny the application and retain the fee. #immigration
Jul. 12, 2021
Let this sink in for a moment first!
According to the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), only 5 percent of undocumented immigrants living in the U.S. are Black, but they comprise 20 percent of immigrants facing detention or deportation on criminal grounds.
Shortly after the Biden administration announced an effort to bring deported veterans back to the U.S., more than two dozen members of the CBC are calling on the administration to expand the initiative to include all unfairly deported immigrants.
In a letter to DHS Secretary Mayorkas, Democratic lawmakers urge him to use his “broad legal authority to return everyone unjustly deported,” including former permanent residents deported for years-old drug convictions.
Source: Docket Wise News
#immigration #lawyer
Jul. 5, 2021
DHS will be reconsidering the cases of migrants who were previously barred from seeking asylum in the U.S. under the Trump administration.
Former President Trump’s policy, implemented in 2019, blocked migrants at the Mexican border from entering the U.S. to apply for asylum, leaving what the Biden administration estimates is now around 35,000 people waiting in Mexico under the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP). In a statement, DHS said it “will expand the pool of MPP-enrolled individuals who are eligible for processing into the United States,” and “will continue to process for entry into the United States MPP enrollees with pending proceedings.” President Biden paused Remain in Mexico shortly after taking office, formally terminating the program in June. The Supreme Court has since dismissed pending legal action on the program as moot.
