Diversity visa lottery winners face may not be able to come to the U.S. because the government can’t—or won’t—issue their visas in time.

Asylum seekers are often portrayed as law breakers who must be prosecuted and punished for coming to the United States. However, it is legal to seek asylum.

When Biden took office, he inherited a legal immigration system that was on the brink of collapse. Delays within USCIS have reached historic levels.

A February 2023 Biden administration fact sheet found nearly 1,000 children separated by the Trump administration remain separated.

After nearly six weeks of inaction following its stinging defeat before the Supreme Court on June 18, the Department of Homeland Security released a memo gutting the Deferred Action for Childhood...

A judge reversed convictions of four volunteers of the humanitarian aid group No More Deaths. The organization works to prevent death along the border.

Roughly 150,000 family-based visas and as many as 80,000 employment-based visas went unused by September 30, the last day of the 2021 fiscal year.

For more than a century, innumerable studies have confirmed two simple yet powerful truths about the relationship between immigration and crime: immigrants are less likely to commit serious crimes or

This fact sheet provides an overview of the H-1B visa category and petition process, addresses the myths perpetuated about the H-1B visa category, and highlights the key contributions H-1B workers

This proposal to change use of the word "alien" to "noncitizen" is a welcome start and an important signal from the Biden administration.

USCIS published a rule that will impose significant fee increases across many facets of the immigration system. This will price people out of citizenship.

Temporary workers—such as those in H-1B status—typically can bring their spouses and children with them to the United States in what is called H-4 status. This fact sheet provides an overview of the

USCIS has long had a problem with backlogs. But that problem has grown considerably since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Biden promised that immigration reform would be a top priority upon taking office. With its bill, it appears the administration has kept that promise.

When members of Congress return from their August recess, they will find several immigration measures urgently awaiting their attention.

Undocumented workers pay tax money to benefits programs Americans utilize every day, like Social Security and Medicare.

"I’m thinking of the separated families, fathers and mothers deported, children left alone because their parents were arrested," a witness said.

(KUTV) Deyvid Morales, a 25-year-old immigrant who has lived in Utah most of his life, helped create and launch an app to help other immigrants learn their constitutional rights.The app mostly aims...

One in seven U.S. residents is an immigrant, while one in eight residents is a native-born U.S. citizen with at least one immigrant parent.

Sanctuary policies do not conceal or shelter unauthorized immigrants from detection. Here's what you need to know about these policies.

This fact sheet provides an overview of the H-1B visa category and petition process, addresses the myths perpetuated about the H-1B visa category, and highlights the key contributions H-1B workers

The Biden administration announced today that it will begin to reimplement as early as Monday the Migrant Protection Protocols—a Trump-era policy also known as the “Remain in Mexico” program. Under

Co-Authors: Emily Creighton and Tsion Gurmu In the summer of 2020, after George Floyd’s murder, racial justice protests took hold in cities throughout the country. The massive mobilization reflected...

The Council is seeking monetary damages on behalf of six asylum-seeking mothers and their children for the trauma they suffered when torn apart under the Trump Administration’s family separation

The bills target people’s rights to seek asylum in the U.S., as well as re-up a laundry list of anti-immigration initiatives from the Trump administration.

It’s time to rethink immigration detention. Detention is not only contrary to American values, it's unnecessary and costly.

Congress began to mark up a budget reconciliation billl that would provide a path to legal status for millions of immigrants in the United States.

The class-action lawsuit complaint alleges that Tucson Sector Border Patrol holds men, women, and children in freezing, overcrowded, and filthy cells for days at a time in violation of the U.S.

When I was 7 years old, my Long Island elementary school took a field trip to the district courthouse and held a mock trial litigating a high-stakes case: Who stole

Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced today that he is taking away a vital lifeline to victims of severe domestic and gang violence. Sessions issued a decision unilaterally overruling important

USCIS clarified a policy change aimed at expanding green card eligibility under the CSPA for children who aged out due to visa backlogs.

Temporary workers—such as those in H-1B status—typically can bring their spouses and children with them to the United States in what is called H-4 status. This fact sheet provides an overview of the

There is overwhelming evidence that immigration is not linked to higher crime rates and that immigrants are less likely to be criminals than the native-born.