U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that applicants for naturalization can now request a replacement Social Security card when they apply for citizenship through Form N-400 (edition date 04/01/24). USCIS noted several reasons why an applicant...
Topic: Immigration Updates
DHS Raises Civil Penalties for Certain Violations
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has raised civil monetary penalties for certain violations based on inflation. The new penalty amounts are effective for penalties assessed after June 28, 2024, whose associated violations occurred after November 2, 2015. For...
DHS Releases Details on Haiti TPS Extension and Redesignation, Work Authorization for Haitian F-1 Students
The Department of Homeland Security released additional details about the extension and redesignation of Haiti for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) through February 3, 2026. Given the timeframes for processing TPS re-registration and work authorization renewal...
Liberian DED Extended Through June 2026
President Biden has extended through June 30, 2026, deferred removal for Liberians with a grant of Deferred Enforced Departure (DED) under a 2022 memorandum. President Biden also announced that eligible Liberian nationals will have continued work authorization through...
Chevron Is Dead! Initial Thoughts on the Immigration Impact of Loper Bright Enterprises
Chevron Is Dead! Initial Thoughts on the Immigration Impact of Loper Bright Enterprises By Brian Green, Mark Stevens, Cyrus D. Mehta, and Stephen Yale-Loehr* On June 28, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Chevron, U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense...
Miller Mayer’s Steve Yale-Loehr Quoted re Supreme Court Rulings, Biden v. Trump on Immigration
Miller Mayer immigration attorney Steve Yale-Loehr was quoted by the Verge in What Scotus Just Did to Broadband, the Right to Repair, the Environment, and More. He said, "In the past, employers have had a hard time overturning narrow interpretations of H-1B issues...
FLCDataCenter.com Discontinued
The Department of Labor's Office of Foreign Labor Certification announced that FLCDataCenter.com is discontinued effective July 1, 2024. Prevailing wage data from the Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics Survey is now available through the OFLC Wage Search tool...
DOJ Reaches Settlement With Staffing Agency for Discrimination Against Non-U.S. Citizens
The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on June 20, 2024, that it secured a settlement agreement with eTeam Inc., an online staffing agency that provides services to companies in the United States and worldwide. The agreement resolves DOJ's determination that eTeam...
Ninth Circuit Holds That Discrimination Against U.S. Citizens on The Basis of Citizenship is Prohibited
In Rajaram v. Meta Platforms, Inc., the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that discrimination against U.S. citizens on the basis of their citizenship is prohibited under 42 U.S.C. § 1981. Purushothaman Rajaram, a naturalized U.S. citizen and information...
DOS Updates Diversity Visa Guidance in Response to Court Decision
On June 25, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia reversed the district courts' decisions that had ordered the Department of State (DOS) to reserve and adjudicate diversity visa (DV) cases from the DV-2020 and DV-2021 program years. The court...
