House Democrats introduced a bill to update the cutoff date for eligibility for some immigrants to . This is not the first time that changes have been made to the green card registry, and the current cutoff date is 1972. No specific date is being suggested. Instead, House Democrats are proposing that applicants would have to have lived in the U.S. for seven years to become eligible, creating a rolling registry that allows new people to apply every year.
U.S. officials announced on Monday a for Afghans in which applicants will need to file only one form so that applications can go through a single government agency, senior officials told reporters. Beginning July 20, new applicants — some in the SIV pipeline — no longer need to send a separate petition to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) for special immigrant status, which means the complete process is now overseen by the State Department.
A novel Republican-led effort to protest the Biden administration’s handling of record-setting migration across the U.S.-Mexico border has resulted in thousands of asylum-seekers being , alarming aid groups and immigrant rights advocates. Texas Governor Greg Abbott launched the program in April, chartering buses to send recently arrived migrants from the southern border to Washington.
In this special report, VOA’s immigration reporter Aline Barros provides an overview of the .
The Supreme Court won't allow the Biden administration to implement a policy that who pose the greatest public safety risk. The court's order Thursday leaves the policy frozen nationwide for now. The court announced it would hear arguments in the case in late November.