Steve Yale-Loehr was quoted by the South China Morning Post in U.S. Can Choose to Deport Hongkongers Under Deferred Enforced Departure Scheme. He said, “Termination of DED can be challenged in court. But the Trump administration is likely to argue that it has wide...
Topic: Immigration policy
DHS Interim Final Rule Expedites Termination of Refugee Status
On October 14, 2026, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published an interim final rule to expedite termination of refugee status when DHS determines that a person was not a refugee within the meaning of INA § 101(a)(42) at the time of admission to the United...
USCIS Proposes to Eliminate Deference to Prior Approvals Involving Same Facts When Adjudicating Extensions
On October 14, 2026, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) published a proposed rule that would eliminate deference to a prior approval involving the same facts when adjudicating a request to extend a petition for employment or stay. USCIS said that the...
Steve Yale-Loehr to Speak on “Our Broken Immigration System and How to Fix It”
Steve Yale-Loehr, retired immigration law professor at Cornell Law School and of counsel at Miller Mayer, will give a talk on Wednesday, September 30 from 6-7 pm entitled “Our Broken Immigration System and How to Fix it”. The talk will be held at the Skaneateles...
NFAP Finds That DHS Wildly Overestimated Revenue From H-1B Fee
On September 24, 2026, the National Foundation for American Policy (NFAP) released a comment on the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) proposed rule to impose a $103,265 fee on H-1B cap-subject petitions. NFAP’s analysis concluded, among other things, that DHS...
DOS Cable Acknowledges That DV and IV Pauses Are Lifted
On September 10, 2026, the Department of State (DOS) sent a cable to all diplomatic and consular posts acknowledging that Diversity Visa (DV) and immigrant visa (IV) pauses ordered by the Trump administration are no longer in effect following a court order. The cable...
Steve Yale-Loehr Publishes New Op-Ed in The New York Times
Steve Yale-Loehr authored If You Thought Immigration Policy Couldn’t Get Any Crueler, an op-ed about the new public charge rule, published by the New York Times.
Trump Orders New H-1B Restrictions/Reviews and Extends $100,000 Fee for New H-1B Nonimmigrant Applications
President Trump issued an executive order and a proclamation that, together, impose new H-1B restrictions, direct the Secretary of Labor to review previously submitted labor condition applications, and extend through September 21, 2027, the $100,000 payment...
Steve Yale-Loehr Quoted by Firstpost on H-1B Crackdown
Steve Yale-Loehr was quoted extensively by Firstpost in ‘U.S. is Shooting Itself in the Foot’: Expert on Trump’s H-1B Crackdown. He said, among other things, that the United States “is shooting itself in the foot by not allowing the best and the brightest to be able...
Trump Administration Plans to Nix Work Permits for H-4 Spouses
The Trump administration plans to issue a rule to eliminate employment authorization eligibility for spouses of H-1B workers. A notice of the proposed rulemaking, was added to a long-term regulatory agenda for the Department of Homeland Security, although there is no...
