On July 1, 2026, the Trump administration announced that it will not renew the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), triggering the agreement’s built-in six-year review process and beginning a potential 10-year path toward expiration. Although this...
Topic: Immigration Articles
E-Verify Announces TPS-Related Revisions to Handbook for Employers
On July 7, 2026, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ (USCIS) E-Verify program announced revisions to its M-274 Handbook for Employers related to Temporary Protected Status (TPS) changes. Specifically, sections 5.0 through 5.3 have been revised due to...
USCIS Again Moves Work Authorization Expiration Date for Certain TPS Recipients, Issues Guidance for Employers
On July 10, 2026, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)’ E-Verify program issued new guidance on work authorization for eligible Temporary Protected Status (TPS) recipients affected by a court order in Mullin v. Doe, a recent Supreme Court decision. The...
Steve Yale-Loehr Featured in National Coverage of Supreme Court Immigration Rulings
What to Know About the Supreme Court’s Birthright Citizenship Order (New York Times): “Despite this seemingly historic loss, the Trump administration is winning its war on immigrants. As a result, the United States has net-negative migration for the first time in 50...
USCIS Opens Asylum Office in Atlanta
On July 1, 2026, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that it is opening an asylum office in Atlanta, Georgia. Beginning July 8, 2026, the Atlanta Asylum Office will conduct interviews for affirmative asylum applicants at three locations. Those...
DHS Proposes to Implement EB-5 Reform and Integrity Act
On July 2, 2026, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published a proposed rule that would implement the EB-5 Reform and Integrity Act of 2022 (RIA), which former President Biden signed on March 15, 2022. In addition to DHS’s general call for comments, the agency...
USCIS Extends Work Authorization for Seven TPS Countries Under Court Order
On July 1, 2026, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) posted new guidance on termination of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) and work authorization for certain TPS recipients affected by a court order. The guidance, which states that work authorization is...
Supreme Court Upholds Birthright Citizenship
On June 30, 2026, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in Trump v. Barbara that children born in the United States to parents unlawfully or temporarily present are “subject to the jurisdiction” of the United States and are citizens at birth under the Fourteenth Amendment’s...
Warning: Fake USCIS Web Pages
Practitioners are warning U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) users about fake web pages that may pop up when a person is navigating to or within the USCIS website. The pages look real at first glance but include misinformation and an incorrect URL and...
DHS Proposes to Raise Naturalization Fees and End Reduced-Fee Option and Fee Waivers
On June 23, 2026, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a proposed rule to increase naturalization fees, end a reduced-fee option (except for qualified current and former armed forces service members), and end the availability of fee waivers. The proposed...
