USCIS is automatically extending the validity of Permanent Resident Cards
Beginning Sept 26, USCIS is automatically extending the validity of Permanent Resident Cards (also known as Green Cards) to 24 months for lawful permanent residents who file Form I-90, Application to Replace Permanent Resident Card.
The language in Form I-90 receipt notice has been updated to provide notice of the 24-month validity extension. The updated receipt notices with the new extension can be presented with an expired Green Card as evidence of continued status.
The agency anticipates that this extension will help applicants who experience longer processing times because they will receive proof of lawful permanent resident status as they await their renewed Green Cards.
USCIS has welcomed 19,000 new citizens
Congratulations to our new citizens 
Fair and humane public charge rule
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has issued a final rule in the Federal Register which provides clarity for noncitizens on how DHS will administer the public charge ground of inadmissibility.
The Biden administration has restored the understanding of a ‘public charge’ that was in place for decades until the Trump administration began to consider supplemental public health benefits and nutritional assistance as part of the public charge inadmissibility determination.
DHS will no longer consider certain non-cash benefits such as Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or other nutrition programs, Children’s Health Insurance Program, Medicaid, housing benefits, benefits related to immunizations or testing for diseases, or other supplemental or special-purpose benefits.
Migrants sent through gap in border wall
Border Patrol has become overwhelmed in the San Diego area, leading to many large groups of migrants, mostly from Central and South America, going past the first border barrier between San Diego and Tijuana and making it onto U.S. territory. Migrants have been waiting up to 12 hours in the sun to be picked up by border agents so they can then attempt to request asylum.
Along the border, the long wait times have caused migrants to be exposed to heat above 90 degrees. Some of the large groups of migrants have been stuck between two 30-foot barriers along this area of the southern border on U.S. soil.
Revised editions available now Form I-589 and I-765
USCIS released revised editions of Form I-589, Application for Asylum and for Withholding of Removal, and Form I-765, Application for Employment Authorization. Effective November 7, 2022, the agency will only accept the 07/26/22 editions of the Form I-589 and Form I-765. On Feb 7, 2022, in Asylum works et al. v. Mayorkas et al., the U.S.
District Court for the District of Columbia vacated two rules for asylum applicants. Effective Fed. 8, 2022, USCIS stopped applying the June 22, 2020 final rule, Removal of 30-Day Processing provision for Asylum Applicant-Related Form I-765 Employment Authorization Applications, and the June 26, 2020 final rule, Asylum Application, Interview, and Employment Authorization for Applicants.
