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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 -

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

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP on 6/18/2025

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

USCIS Issues Updated Guidance on Terminated CHNV Program Following SCOTUS Decision

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 6/13/2025

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

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

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 6/12/2025

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

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

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 6/10/2025

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

SCOTUS Allows Trump Administration to Terminate CHNV Parole Program; Current Status of Venezuelan & Haitian TPS

Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP on 6/4/2025

On May 30, 2025, the Supreme Court of the United States granted the Trump administration’s request to pause a lower court order staying the termination of the CHNV (Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan, Venezuelan) humanitarian parole...more

Follow-Up: Federal Court Orders Resumption of Application Processing for CHNV and Other Humanitarian Parole Beneficiaries

Warner Norcross + Judd on 5/30/2025

As a follow-up to the April 14 update regarding the federal court’s temporary block on the Trump administration’s termination of the Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela (CHNV) parole program, a new ruling has now been issued...more

SCOTUS Unravels 2023 TPS for Venezuela: Employers Await USCIS Guidance

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 5/27/2025

In a pivotal immigration development, the U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) has effectively granted the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) permission to proceed with the termination of the 2023 Temporary Protected Status (TPS)...more

CHNV Parole Pause, Continued: Mass Terminations Still Blocked, but SCOTUS Appeal Looms

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 5/12/2025

In the ongoing narrative of the Trump administration’s attempt to repeal the Humanitarian Parole program for Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela (CHNV), on Monday, May 5th, the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit...more

Supreme Court Clears Department of Homeland Security’s Public Charge Rule to Go Forward Nationwide; Department of State Follows...

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 3/4/2020

In a 5–4 decision on February 21, 2020, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in Wolf v. Cook County, Illinois (No. 19A905) in favor of staying an Illinois district court’s injunction blocking the Trump...more

US Supreme Court Allows Public Charge Rule on Immigration to Move Forward

Morgan Lewis on 1/28/2020

The US Supreme Court ruled on January 27 that the administration can begin to implement the public charge rule while the issue is still being litigated in the federal court system. ...more

Beltway Buzz - May, 2018 #3

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 5/28/2018

No, this week’s edition of the Buzz will not be in #ALLCAPS, but folks in D.C. are certainly excited that their hockey team made it to the Stanley Cup Final. If the District had any meaningful representation in Congress at...more

April 2017: The 13 Biggest Labor And Employment Law Stories

Fisher Phillips on 5/5/2017

It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law. While it always seems to evolve at a rapid pace, the last few months have seen an unprecedented number of changes. April 2017 was another month...more

Immigration Alert: October 2013

Epstein Becker & Green on 10/30/2013

I. USCIS Instructs on Immigration Benefits for Same-Sex Spouses - On June 26, 2013, the Supreme Court of the United States ("SCOTUS") held that Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act ("DOMA") was unconstitutional....more

BIA Reverses USCIS Denial of I-130 Petition for Same-Sex Couple in Matter of Zeleniak

Mintz - Immigration Viewpoints on 7/22/2013

In its first decision regarding same-sex immigration benefits since the June 26, 2013, Supreme Court decision United States v. Windsor, which held that Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act (“DOMA”) is unconstitutional,...more

Immigration Alert: July 2013

Epstein Becker & Green on 7/22/2013

I. SCOTUS Holds DOMA Unconstitutional - On June 26, 2013, the Supreme Court of the United States ("SCOTUS") held that Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act ("DOMA") was unconstitutional. United States v. Windsor,...more

Snapshots of Big Picture and Meaningful Small-Scale Developments in the World of Immigration

Baker Donelson on 7/12/2013

The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services' (USCIS) E-Verify system will now contact employees directly in the event of a Social Security Administration (SSA) or Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Tentative...more

DOMA Ruling: Practical Implications of the Supreme Court’s Decision

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 7/8/2013

On June 26, 2013, the Supreme Court of the United States issued a decision in United States v. Windsor. The Court ruled that a provision of the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which had denied federal benefits to...more

Supreme Court Decision On DOMA Should Provide Equal Access To Immigration Benefits

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 6/28/2013

On June 26, 2013, the Supreme Court of the United States struck down a provision of the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) that denied federal benefits to same-sex partners....more

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