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Bona Fide Determination and Employment Authorization for U-Visa Petitioners
In 2000, Congress created the U nonimmigrant visa status for victims of crime. The U visa was created to encourage crime victims to come forward and help law enforcement identify and prosecute criminals. Undocumented immigrants are especially vulnera…
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Vaccine Requirements for Immigrants
Contributor: Van T. Doan
The United States has a long history of concern about immigrants spreading disease. The COVID-19 pandemic, now approaching the two-year mark, has only increased that concern. The good news is that now we have a weapon against the pandemic: vaccines t…
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Advantages and Disadvantages of Temporary Protected Status
Over 700,000 immigrants who came to the United States from a dozen other countries have been granted Temporary Protected Status (TPS) by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). As the name suggests, TPS is a temporary status available…
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President Biden Reverses Trump Rule Requiring Immigrant Health Insurance
President Biden has struck down a Trump-era rule requiring immigrants to prove that they would have health insurance shortly after entering the United States. The reversal has removed a barrier to entry for as many as two-thirds of potential immigran…
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U.S. State Department Ends Policy Denying Citizenship to Children Born Abroad Through ART
Contributor: Van T. Doan
Is an infant born abroad to an American parent an American citizen? Until fairly recently, the answer was yes—usually. In some situations, children born outside of the U.S. using assisted reproductive technology (ART) and surrogacy have not been co…
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Vangala v. USCIS: End of the “No Blank Space Rejection Policy”
Under the Trump administration, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) adopted an agency policy that targeted humanitarian benefits for asylum seekers and survivors of violent crimes such as domestic violence. The policy, known as the “N…
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Central American Minors Program to Reopen: What You Need to Know
Contributor: Van T. Doan
Unsurprisingly, U.S. immigration policy changes with each presidential administration. In 2014, the federal government established the Central American Minors (CAM) Refugee and Parole program. The goal of the program was to help certain children in H…
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Refugee vs. Asylum Seeker: What’s the Difference?
Contributor: Van T. Doan
With the COVID-19 pandemic dominating the news for more than a year, the public’s attention has been diverted from other important issues, such as people fleeing their native countries to seek a better life in the United States as a refugee or asyl…
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How the Mendez Rojas Settlement Affects Asylum Seekers
United States law requires that a person seeking asylum in the U.S. must apply for asylum within one year of their last arrival to this country. A recent case, Mendez Rojas v. Wolf, involved a challenge to the federal government’s failure to give p…
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Consular Processing of Nonimmigrant Visas After the Expiration of PP 10052
Contributor: Van T. Doan
On June 22, 2020, then-President Trump issued Presidential Proclamation 10052 (PP 10052), which suspended the entry of certain nonimmigrants into the United States effective June 24, 2020. At that time, the COVID-19 pandemic continued to worsen all o…
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