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United States Citizenship and Immigration Services Immigration Procedures Employment Authorization Documents (EAD)

The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is a federal agency under the umbrella of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security that oversees lawful immigration to the United States. The USCIS... more +
The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is a federal agency under the umbrella of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security that oversees lawful immigration to the United States. The USCIS performs a broad variety of administrative functions, including processing visa and naturalization petitions, as well as applications for asylum and refugee status.  less -
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E-Verify Revocation Lists for CHNV Updated: Employers Have to Add One More Thing to Their To-Do Lists

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US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) initially deployed the Status Change Report on June 20, 2025, to help certain employers identify whether any E-Verify cases were created using an Employment Authorization...more

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TPS Haiti Work Authorization Extended to February 2026, Employers need to Make I-9 Updates.

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In a significant development for employers and Haitian nationals under Temporary Protected Status (TPS), the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has updated its guidance to reflect a court-ordered automatic...more

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TPS designations for Honduras, Nicaragua will end on Sept. 8

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced today that Temporary Protected Status for Honduras and Nicaragua will terminate on September 8. The announcements come only one week after the DHS announced that TPS status...more

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The Top Five Things to Know about E-Verify’s New “Status Change Report” for Employers that Use E-Verify

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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”) has rolled out a new reporting tool to assist Employers who participate in E-Verify in identifying cases where certain employees’ work authorization may have been revoked by...more

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Update: USCIS Expands Eligibility for 540-Day EAD Extension

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After reaching out to both U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and the Department of Justice’s Immigrant and Employee Rights Section (IER) for clarification, USCIS has issued a significant and unexpected update...more

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EAD Terminations and Status Change Reporting: Key Updates for E-Verify Users

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has begun revoking employment authorization documents (EADs) for certain noncitizens whose parole into the United States has been terminated. This includes individuals paroled...more

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E-Verify Trends: Evolving Employer Notifications, Alerts

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E-Verify is an internet-based system through which employers electronically confirm the employment eligibility of their employees. Designed to ensure that employers hire individuals authorized to work in the country, E-Verify...more

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CHNV Update: Revocations and USCIS Guidance Trigger Urgent Employer Action

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The Trump administration terminated the Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, Venezuela parole (CHNV parole) program on June 12, 2025...more

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CHNV Fallout: USCIS Issues Compliance Guidance for Employers

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On June 20, 2025, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) issued updated guidance to E-Verify employers regarding the revocation of Employment Authorization Documents (EADs) for individuals who entered under the...more

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DHS provides info on re-verifying employees whose EADs are revoked

As we have previously reported, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is revoking employment authorization documents for certain individuals affected by the termination of humanitarian parole, including beneficiaries of...more

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Work Authorization in Transition: TPS, parole updates for Venezuela, Haiti, Nicaragua, and CHNV

The U.S. Supreme Court recently lifted a federal court injunction that had temporarily blocked the U.S. Department of Homeland Security from terminating the CHNV Humanitarian Parole Program, which allowed qualifying nationals...more

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DHS Issues Notices of Termination for the CHNV Parole Program

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On June 12, 2025, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) began sending termination notices, by email, to approximately 530,000 individuals who entered the United States under a recent parole program for Cubans, Haitians,...more

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USCIS Lifts Administrative Pause on Immigration Applications Filed by Uniting for Ukraine (U4U) Parolees and Others Who Entered...

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On June 9, 2025, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) issued a new policy memorandum instructing USCIS officers to adjudicate all pending applications filed by individuals paroled into the United...more

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Major Updates to Immigration Proceedings Impacting Hundreds of Thousands of Immigrants in the U.S.

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On June 12, 2025, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officially terminated the Biden-era parole program for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans (CHNV). This DHS notice revokes both their parole and their...more

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Client Alert: U.S. Supreme Court Allows Trump Administration to Terminate CHNV Parole Program – Employers Must Act on Loss of Work...

On May 30, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Trump Administration, allowing it to terminate the Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, Venezuela (CHNV) Humanitarian Parole Program. This decision reversed lower court rulings...more

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CHNV Parole Program Ends, Creating Urgent Employer Compliance Obligations

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The administration terminated the Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, Venezuela parole (CHNV parole) program Thursday (June 12, 2025)... According to the administration, notices have already been issued to affected parolees advising...more

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USCIS Issues Updated Guidance on Terminated CHNV Program Following SCOTUS Decision

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USCIS has issued updated guidance following the U.S. Supreme Court’s May 30, 2025, decision to grant DHS’s request to lift an April 14 U.S. district court order halting the Department’s termination of the CHNV program. With...more

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Venezuela TPS: USCIS Confirms Termination of 2023 Designation – But Some Work Permits Still Valid

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Late Friday evening, June 6, 2025 – right after we posted TPS Twist: Court Halts DHS Action on Certain Venezuelan Work Authorization-For Now – U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) updated its website with a...more

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SSA Pauses Automatic Issuance of SSNs for Certain Immigration Applicants

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The Social Security Administration (SSA) has quietly hit pause on a key program that streamlined Social Security number (SSN) issuance for nonimmigrant and immigrant applicants. As of March 19, 2025, the Enumeration Beyond...more

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USCIS Issues Updated Guidance on Terminated Venezuela TPS Following SCOTUS Decision

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USCIS has issued updated guidance following the U.S. Supreme Court’s May 19, 2025, decision to grant the Justice Department’s emergency request to lift a March 31 California district court order halting DHS’s termination of...more

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Updates on Immigration Relief Programs: CHNV Parole and TPS

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In March 2025, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) made several changes to various immigration relief programs, which were enjoined in different federal district courts. More recently, the Supreme Court of the United...more

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CHNV Parole Update: SCOTUS Grants Stay, Terminations May Proceed — But Implementation Unclear

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In a 7–2 decision issued by the U.S. Supreme Court on May 30th (with Justices Jackson and Sotomayor dissenting), the Court granted the federal government’s request to stay the district court’s injunction that had blocked the...more

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Temporary protected status for Nepal will end in August

Today the U.S. Department of Homeland Security published a notice terminating Temporary Protected Status for Nepalese nationals effective August 5. This is expected to affect more than 12,000 individuals. This means that...more

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New Travel Ban for 12 Countries, Partial Limitation for 7 Other Countries

On June 4, 2025, President Donald Trump issued a proclamation restricting the entry of foreign nationals from select countries, citing national security and public safety concerns. ...more

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U.S. Supreme Court allows termination of Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela (CHNV) Parole Programs

On May 30, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court decided to allow the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to terminate parole for over 500,000 immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela who entered the U.S. under the CHNV...more

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