In 2011, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit decided Pllumi v. A.G holding that healthcare in a foreign country may be considered in evaluating a humanitarian asylum claim.  The Third Circuit Court of Appeals is a federal court.  Its jurisdiction is over the states of Pennsylvania,...

On Monday, March 26, 2018, Hackensack, New Jersey school board officials unanimously approved the Access to Education, Student Privacy and Immigration Enforcement policy.[1] The regulations under this policy will help protect undocumented public school students and their families in two ways: (more…)

On February 27, 2018, the Supreme Court decided the case of Jennings vs. Rodriguez, which was a class action procedural challenge against varied immigration law provisions that allow for detention of illegal immigrants in the U.S. (more…)

On January 31, 2018, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USICS) announced its plan to schedule asylum interviews for the most recent affirmative asylum applications ahead of older asylum applications. (more…)

The December 20, 2017 New York Times article “Without New Laws or Walls, Trump Presses the Brake on Legal Immigration” insinuates that the Trump Administration is purposely slowing down the H1-B visa process by drowning potential immigrants in paperwork and red tape. (more…)