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We have received enough petitions to reach the congressionally mandated cap on H-2B visas for temporary nonagricultural workers for the first half of fiscal year 2025. Sept. 18 was the final receipt date for new cap-subject H-2B worker petitions requesting an employment start date before April 1, 2025.

Naturalized citizens make up a record number of eligible voters in 2022, most of whom have lived here more than 20 years.

The post 1 in 10 eligible voters in the U.S. are naturalized citizens appeared first on Pew Research Center.

Effective Sept. 10, 2024, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services automatically extended the validity of Permanent Resident Cards (also known as Green Cards) to 36 months for lawful permanent residents who file Form I-90, Application to Replace Permanent Resident Card.  

20 years ago, Springfield, Ohio, had a problem. Like many communities in the Rust Belt, it seemed like good times were a thing of the past. Once a manufacturing hub, the city had been losing population for decades, with rising unemployment and falling incomes.  City leaders set about turning things around, developing a strategy to […]

The post Immigrants Are Making Ohio Great. Let’s Talk About That. appeared first on Immigration Impact.

This past week, the Council, alongside the Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI), had the privilege to present the report the organizations co-authored on U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) deployment during protests demanding racial justice after the murder of George Floyd at the Sixth World Conference on Remedies to Racial and Social Inequality. The […]

The post Council and BAJI Highlight Their Efforts on Government Transparency to Audience in South Africa appeared first on Immigration Impact.

Immigrant entrepreneurs continue to shape our economy and play a critical role in the success and innovation of major corporations. In 2024, this trend is clearer than ever, with 46% of Fortune 500 companies being founded by immigrants or the children of immigrants. This year marks the highest share the American Immigration Council has recorded […]

The post Immigrant Entrepreneurs and the Fortune 500: Powering the US Economy in 2024 appeared first on Immigration Impact.

On Sept. 17, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will celebrate Constitution Day and Citizenship Day as part of Constitution Week (Sept. 17 to 23).

On Aug. 12, the California Service Center (CSC) moved to a new facility as USCIS centralizes processing for immigration benefits.

Written by Raul Pinto, Deputy Legal Director, Transparency at the American Immigration Council and Jennifer Ibañez Whitlock, Supervisory Policy & Practice Counsel, Government Relations at the American Immigration Lawyers Association Last month, a federal oversight agency published a report claiming that 32,000 children classified as unaccompanied minors did not show up to their immigration court […]

The post Oversight Agency Says 32,000 Unaccompanied Children Are Missing. But Are They? appeared first on Immigration Impact.

USCIS will conduct system maintenance to the Contact Relationship Interface System (CRIS) on Wednesday, Sep. 5, 2024 at 11:50 p.m. through Thursday, Sep. 5, 2024 at 2:00 a.m. Eastern.

A mere three days after 16 Republican-led states sued the Biden administration over its “Keeping Families Together” parole process, a federal judge in Texas handed the plaintiffs a temporary “administrative stay,” ordering the federal government to stop granting any applications under the new process while the lawsuit proceeds.   The judge’s order, which allows the U.S. […]

The post Judge Grants Texas’ Request to Keep Families Apart, At Least For Now appeared first on Immigration Impact.

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services today announced the opening of an international field office in Quito, Ecuador on Sept. 10. The Quito Field Office will focus on increasing refugee processing capacity, consistent with USCIS commitments under the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program, and helping reunite individuals with their family members already in the United States.

We are updating guidance in the USCIS Policy Manual regarding when students may be eligible for optional practical training (OPT) extensions for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields.

What would a second Donald Trump presidency mean for immigrants? It’s often hard to answer these questions using politicians’ own words – you have to parse what they wish to do versus what actions they’re willing to take. But one way to answer the question is to look at what former Trump administration officials see […]

The post What Project 2025 Says About Immigration appeared first on Immigration Impact.

A group of Republican-led states, headed by Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach, have sued to block a new rule that allows Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival (DACA) recipients to access health insurance through the Affordable Care Act (ACA). It is yet another legal assault on Dreamers, while the fate of DACA itself hangs in the […]

The post Republican-Led States Sue to Block DACA Recipients from Accessing Affordable Health Insurance appeared first on Immigration Impact.

Updated: August 22, 2024 This is an update to our blog first posted on June 18, 2024, when President Biden first announced two policies to help provide streamlined paths to legal status for certain undocumented immigrants. On August 19, 2024, details regarding the two policies described below were posted as a notice in the Federal […]

The post President Biden’s Keeping Families Together Program Has Begun appeared first on Immigration Impact.

Earlier this summer, a federal judge issued a strong rebuke to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s attempt to shut down the faith-based Annunciation House, labeling his actions as “outrageous and intolerable.” Federal Judge Francisco X. Dominguez’s July 2 ruling came as a response to Paxton’s attempts to compel shelters along the Texas-Mexico border to hand […]

The post Texas Attorney General Paxton Continues Fight Against NGOs That Serve Migrants appeared first on Immigration Impact.

The globe’s 280 million immigrants shape countries' religious composition. Christians make up the largest share, but Jews are most likely to have migrated.

The post The Religious Composition of the World’s Migrants appeared first on Pew Research Center.

Explore our interactive table showing the religious composition of immigrants around the globe and how it's changed from 1990 to 2020.

The post Religious composition of the world’s migrants, 1990-2020 appeared first on Pew Research Center.

The Department of Homeland Security today announced a Federal Register notice to implement Keeping Families Together, a process for certain noncitizen spouses and stepchildren of U.S. citizens.