Today, January 14, 2026, news broke that the State Department has frozen immigrant visa processing for nationals of dozens of countries at U.S. embassies and consulates abroad. Many headlines are calling this a new “travel ban.” Since there are already at least two...
This is a question that comes up often for permanent residents looking to apply for citizenship. Will Immigration allow a person to naturalize even if they owe back taxes? Typically a person is otherwise eligible to naturalize but they owe back taxes, either because...
The Sixth Circuit issued an interesting decision today on the issue of false statements in asylum applications and the "frivolousness" bar to asylum. The case is Yousif v. Lynch and involves a decision denying asylum to a person who was otherwise-eligible because the...
In a solid blow to the Obama Administration's family detention efforts to deter refugees from coming to he United States, a California Federal judge has ordered that the government is bound by a settlement agreement it entered into 15 years ago to not detain...
One of the most common consultation topics in our office is whether a recently detained person is eligible for a bond. The typical scenario involves an immigrant who has committed a crime, is now in immigration custody, and their family wants to get them released....