On February 5, 2025, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that the initial registration period for the fiscal year 2026 H-1B cap season will open at noon ET on March 7, 2025, and run through noon ET on March 24, 2025. During this period,...
Topic: Immigration Updates
Steve Yale-Loehr on Mass Deportation Challenges
Steve was quoted by the Financial Times in What It Would Take for America to Deport 11 [Million] Immigrants (subscription required). Individuals with outstanding deportation orders may be removed from the United States immediately, he noted, "[b]ut that is a...
Steve Yale-Loehr on Mass Deportation Challenges
Steve was quoted by the Financial Times in What It Would Take for America to Deport 11 [Million] Immigrants (subscription required). Individuals with outstanding deportation orders may be removed from the United States immediately, he noted, "[b]ut that is a...
Steve Yale-Loehr on ICE and School Access
Steve was quoted by the Miami Herald in Can Schools Turn Away ICE Officials? Agents Need Specific Warrant to Enter, Experts Say. Steve said that for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to enter schools and other sensitive locations, including...
Steve Yale-Loehr shares Opinion on Trump’s Executive Orders and Immigration
Steve was quoted by Newsweek in Donald Trump Has Promised a 'Golden Age' for the U.S. Can He Deliver? He said, "With better-crafted [executive orders], courts may be less likely to issue injunctions. From a legal perspective [the executive orders] may more easily pass...
Steve Yale-Loehr on Trump’s Potential Travel Ban
Steve Yale-Loehr was quoted by Vox in How Trump is Laying the Groundwork for Another Travel Ban. He said, "I think that [the Trump administration has] learned from their mistakes in the first administration, setting things up so that if they want to do a travel ban,...
Scammers Are Impersonating ICE Officers and Local Police
In the current climate of aggressive deportations, scammers are attempting to cash in by impersonating U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers and local police to scare naturalized U.S. citizens and immigrants into giving out information. For example,...
President Trump Orders Guantanamo Bay Expansion to ‘Full Capacity’
On January 29, 2025, President Trump issued a memorandum to the Secretaries of Defense and Homeland Security "to expand the Migrant Operations Center at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay to full capacity to provide additional detention space for high-priority criminal...
CBP Clarifies Advance Parole Guidance; Practitioners Urge Caution
On January 22, 2025, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) clarified that an executive order to "“terminate all categorical parole programs that are contrary to the policies of the United States" does not apply to those arriving with a valid Form I-512 [advance...
DHS Pauses Humanitarian Parole Programs
On January 23, 2025, the top official at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) reportedly ordered a pause of various humanitarian parole programs while the agency assesses them, following an email order from the acting head of the Department of Homeland...
