On September 11, 2026, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that it has received enough petitions to meet the congressionally established H-2B cap for the first half of fiscal year 2027. September 4, 2026, was the final receipt date for new...
Topic: Immigration Updates
DHS Proposes to Eliminate 60-Day Grace Period for Certain Nonimmigrant Workers Upon Cessation of Employment Before Authorized Stay Expires
On September 11, 2026, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a proposed rule to eliminate the 60-day grace period after cessation of employment before the expiration of a nonimmigrant worker’s authorized period of stay. This includes those with E-1, E-2,...
Steve Yale-Loehr Quoted by New York Sun on Alien Terrorist Removal Court
Steve Yale-Loehr was quoted by the New York Sun in A Ghost Court From 1996 Awakens To Try To Deport an Alleged ISIS Matriarch. Commenting on the Trump administration’s revival of the Alien Terrorist Removal Court, he said, “There are usually easier ways to deport...
Steve Yale-Loehr Quoted by Epoch Times on International Student D/S Rule Lawsuit
Steve Yale-Loehr was quoted by Epoch Times in New D/S Rules for International Students Nearing Effective Date; Lawsuit Still Unresolved. He said that he believes the plaintiffs have a “very good chance of winning" the lawsuit discussed in the article, noting that...
Canada Attracts Researchers From U.S. Universities
According to reports of a Canada-bound “brain drain” from the United States, 21 Canadian universities have taken advantage of Trump administration pressures on scientific research and funding at top U.S. universities by hiring at least 48 researchers from them. The...
Lawsuit Challenges ‘Arbitrary Mandatory Form Changes’ Issued Without Warning
On September 3, 2026, the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) and immigration law firm Benach Pitney Reilly sued the Trump administration for “implementing substantive form changes again, without warning, that will harm potentially thousands of AILA...
USCIS Says It Will Follow Court Order on Diversity Visa Adjustment Applications
According to reports, on August 28, 2026, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California issued an order in Medani v. Trump that temporarily vacated PM-602-0193 pending further litigation. That memorandum, issued by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration...
DHS Issues Interim Final Rule on Children Born in United States to Foreign Government Employees
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that it plans to issue an interim final rule on September 9, 2026, effective September 4, 2026, to allow certain children born in the United States to foreign government employees who are not U.S. citizens to...
U.S. District Judge Rules in Favor of Stanford Daily on Free Speech for F-1 Students
On August 28, 2026, in Stanford Daily Publishing Corporation v. Rubio, a U.S. district judge ruled in favor of the student newspaper Stanford Daily in a case challenging the Trump administration’s actions against free speech by noncitizen students in the United States...
District Court Judge Rules Against Trump in Birthright Citizenship Case
On September 2, 2026, in CASA, Inc., v. Trump, a U.S. district judge in Maryland ruled against President Trump’s latest Executive Order 14418, issued August 6, 2026, that once again attempts to limit birthright citizenship. The court said that the order “is almost...
