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Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News, Jan. 3, 2023 "The Biden administration on Tuesday proposed increasing application fees for employment-based visas and other immigration programs, in part to fund the adjudication of soaring numbers of asylum claims...

Jasmine Aguilera, TIME Magazine, May 4, 2022 "In recent years, liberal and conservative attorneys general, nonprofit organizations, and individual plaintiffs have filed an avalanche of immigration-related suits in federal courts, resulting in a...

Justice Action Center, Mar. 15, 2022 "Justice Action Center (JAC) launched a litigation tracker microsite that follows states’ legal challenges to inclusive federal immigration policies. Since President Biden took office, states like Texas...

NILA, AIC PRACTICE ADVISORY, September 22, 2021 "The Administrative Procedure Act (APA) is a federal statute that regulates federal agency action in a number of ways. Relevant here, the judicial review provisions of the APA, 5 U.S.C. § 701...

On Sept. 9, 2020 Angelo A. Paparelli , on behalf of ABIL , filed this amicus brief in ILRC v. Wolf. Angelo writes: "The brief attacks as unlawful under the Homeland Security Act any expenditures by USCIS from the Immigration Examinations Fee Account...

Aditi Shah, June 29, 2020 "From the outset, the coronavirus pandemic posed a unique and immediate threat to incarcerated people—including noncitizens in civil immigration detention. As the pandemic goes on, lawsuits have proliferated across...

Kim Langona, Apr. 27, 2020 - A detailed description of federal court litigation in all states and DC, updated as of 4-27-20.

Federal Register / Vol. 85, No. 79 / Thursday, April 23, 2020 "The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is revising procedural requirements in regulations related to service of process of summonses, complaints, and subpoenas. DATES: This final...

Kim Langona, Apr. 3, 2020 "On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization officially declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. Two days later, President Trump declared a national emergency over the COVID-19 outbreak. To date, the Centers for Disease...

Cyrus Mehta, Jan. 21, 2020 "In light of the higher possibility of denials of routine H-1B and L-1 petitions, immigration lawyers may want to consider stepping out of their comfort zones. They should consider thinking about representing the client...

Suzanne Monyak, Law360, Dec. 19, 2019 "This year saw a number of key federal court rulings on the Trump administration’s immigration agenda, with some judges giving the president's restrictionist policies the green light and others halting...

Senior Data Journalist Sinduja Rangarajan has three must-read posts: How I Tracked an Explosion in Lawsuits Against Trump’s Immigration Policies - Mother Jones, Dec. 2, 2019 Building a Wall Out of Red Tape - Reveal, Nov. 30, 2019 Trump Has...

San Diego superstar Kathrin S. Mautino discovers hidden gems among "old" BIA cases that can help you solve today's knotty litigation problems. Listen to the audio here .

Angelo A. Paparelli, Mar. 4, 2019 "Much digital ink has already been spilled reporting on the phantom tide of undocumented migrants supposedly breaching our Southern border. This article will address a different, but very-real immigration flood...

On Sept. 9, 2015 the State Department published the October 2015 Visa Bulletin with a new "Dates for Filing Applications" feature enabling some on the backlogged waiting lists to file 'early' for adjustment of status. But on Sept. 25th...