Category: Asylum and Visas

President Donald Trump is taking one of the defining fights of his second term to the highest court in the country. This week his administration asked the Supreme Court to reinstate the sweeping asylum bar he imposed on his first day back in office, a policy that all but shut the door on migrants trying…

Up to 200,000 foreigners who came to the United States as tourists or on business and then filed for asylum could soon lose their visas, under a Trump administration plan that would amount to the single largest mass visa revocation in American history. Still being finalized, the plan would strip so-called B1 and B2 visas…

The Trump administration is trying again to put a six-figure price on hiring foreign workers, and this time it is writing the number into federal regulation. The Department of Homeland Security has proposed a new fee of $103,265 on every H-1B petition subject to the annual cap, a charge that would land on top of…

A federal judge in Manhattan erased the Trump administration’s ban on immigrant visas for citizens of 75 countries on Friday, ruling that Secretary of State Marco Rubio had no power to issue it and that the policy violated a nondiscrimination statute Congress wrote in 1965. The countries covered nearly 40 percent of the world. The…

A federal contract quietly reached its expiration date on Friday, and with it went the funding that pays for attorneys to represent children who crossed the border without a parent. The network it supported covers roughly 26,000 children, most of them facing removal proceedings, some of them young enough to need cartoons to understand what…

When Donald Trump signed a proclamation adding a $100,000 annual surcharge to H‑1B visa applications, he turned a long‑running policy debate into an immediate cost crisis for employers that rely on foreign talent. Tech giants, flush with cash and global footprints, are already probing legal workarounds, from shifting hires to overseas hubs to leaning on…

The United States has moved to pause immigrant visa processing for a large group of countries, a sweeping step that instantly reshapes who can start a new life in America through family or employment sponsorship. The State Department says the halt is tied to concerns about future reliance on public assistance and national security vetting,…

President Donald Trump’s decision to slap a $100,000 fee on each new H-1B worker hired from abroad has turned a long-running policy debate into a direct hit on the business model of India’s biggest IT outsourcers. The new price tag threatens to squeeze margins, unsettle investors and force companies like Tata Consultancy Services and Infosys…

Foreign holidays to New York or Los Angeles now come with a new kind of packing list: passport, return ticket, and five years of social media history. Under President Donald Trump, the United States is knitting together expanded online screening of visitors with a broader system of “continuous vetting,” turning once-routine tourism into an ongoing…

The Trump administration has turned a long-debated idea into policy reality, opening a premium immigration lane for the ultra-wealthy that trades cash for speed. The new “gold card” visa promises a fast track to U.S. residency, and eventually citizenship, for applicants willing to put at least $1 million on the table. By formally launching a…