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A Supreme Court ruling and a Maryland federal court ruling ordering USCIS to continue processing DACA applications are not good enough for USCIS.

ICE announced on July 24, 2020 that despite the settlement with Harvard and MIT, only currently enrolled F-1 ans M-1 international students can attend ‘online only’ classes. No new students can come for colleges that will do classes online.  ICE will bar entry to NEW F-1 and M-1 international students who received their student visa […]

A FEDERAL DISTRICT COURT in MARYLAND orders to the U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY USCIS to start processing new DREAMERS DACA application again according to what the U.S. SUPREME COURT ordered two weeks ago in striking down president TRUMP’S ATTEMPT TO CANCEL OUT/RESCIND THE OBAMA-PROGRAM “DEFERRED ACTION FOR CHILDHOOD ARRIVALS,” OR DACA fro short. THEY […]

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ICE agreed to rescind/cancel their new draconian policy of sending students home if their college had to hold classes online.  Many major US universities joined Harvard and MIT in their federal lawsuit in the district of Massachusetts when ICE announced of its plan to change student visa laws forcing foreign students who have to attend […]

Harvard and MIT sue ICE and the Trump Administration to undo the July 6 ‘final temporary’ draconian Student Visa rules stating that international students in colleges forced to do online classes due to COVID-19 must leave US immediately.  Even in difficult times, this country has always welcomed legal students from other countries and our American […]

“Exactly 123 years to the day that it was dedicated, the Shaw Memorial, a monument honoring the first all-volunteer black regiment of the Union Army in the Civil War, was defaced by rioters demanding justice for African-Americans. On May 31, 1897, the monument was erected on Boston Commons to honor the 54th Massachusetts Regiment of […]

Since the Supreme Court Decision of June 18, 2020 left the door open to ending DACA “if Trump only did it the right way,” guess what Trump is doing. He is ending DACA the right way. DACA is the program that legalized kids brought to US under the age of 16 without proper papers and […]

On May 17, USCIS requested $1.2 billion in emergency financial aid from Congress. The agency blamed its financial woes on the COVID-19 pandemic and projected steep budget shortfalls: Applications would drop by 60 percent through September, it said. But some experts say the Trump administration’s stringent immigration policies are to blame for the agency’s current […]

If you are an F-1 or M-1 Visa Student in US and your college just announced (just as our local Rutgers University in NJ did) that the courses will be only ONLINE, you must leave US or transfer to another college with physical classes. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced new regulations about student visa […]