USCIS Filing Fee Increase On July 22, 2025, USCIS published a Federal Register notice announcing the implementation of these H.R. 1 immigration-related fees. Beginning in FY 2026, and continuing for each subsequent fiscal year, the Department of…
Federal Judge Strikes Down ICE Courthouse Arrest Policy Federal Court Invalidates ICE Courthouse Arrest Policy October 3, 2026 Joseph Caraccio ICE Federal Court U.S. District Judge P. Kevin Castel of the Southern District of New…
Rumors have been circling around for a couple of weeks now about a new “secret immigration court” at 26 Federal Plaza in downtown New York, NY. This seems to have been confirmed by AILA according…
Chief U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Beaverstock issued a temporary stay on September 21, 2026, blocking the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and ICE from conducting warrantless raids at private construction sites in the Southern District of Alabama. The ruling on September 21,…
On August 21, 2026, a federal judge in the Southern District of New York has vacated a Trump administration policy that suspended the processing of visas from 75 countries, including Afghanistan, Iran and Somalia, whose nationals…
At 8:20am Andrew Arrabaca, a 43-year-old Army veteran from Poughkeepsie, NY, allegedly poured gasoline on the entrance steps to 26 Federal Plaza in downtown Manhattan where the New York City Immigration Court (non-detained docket) and…
Happy 4th of July On July 2, 2026, in a 2-1 ruling, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals concluded that noncitizens being detained by ICE during their removal proceedings must be afforded a bond hearing…
The Supreme Court has upheld birthright citizenship in a landmark 6-3 ruling, striking down an executive order by President Donald Trump that sought to deny automatic citizenship to children born in the U.S. to undocumented or temporarily present parents. The decision,…
Today’s policy announcement demonstrates this administration’s desire to cause misery and to be cruel for no reason. On May 22, 2026, US Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS) published a policy memo stating that they would…
In 2022 undocumented immigrants paid a total of $92 BILLION on their federal income taxes according to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. That is close to the amount of money the people of…
A federal judge in New York has banned US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents from arresting immigrants in or around three federal courthouses in lower Manhattan, where aggressive operations had resulted in ICE officers…
There are approximately 11 million immigration applications currently pending before the US Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS) and the standard processing times for immigration applications is upwards of five years in some cases. Some people…