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USCIS Pauses Benefit Requests for Nationals From ‘High-Risk’ Countries and Halts Asylum Adjudications
On December 2, 2025, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) issued a policy memorandum directing the agency to place on hold all benefit requests for individuals from one of the…
Free Movement Articles
National Audit Office publishes analysis of the asylum system
The National Audit Office has published their report “An analysis of the asylum system“. The report identifies “four key enablers needed for an effective, value for money asylum system”. These…
SHG Immigration Law Blog
USCIS Freezes Asylum Processing and Immigration Benefits Following National Guard Shooting
By Fran Metz
On November 26, 2025, two members of the West Virginia National Guard, deployed to Washington, D.C., as part of a controversial federal deployment ordered by President Trump without local consent,…
Washington Journal of Law, Technology & Arts
From Bad to Worse: How a Smartphone App Went from Cargo Inspections to Asylum Seekers to Self-Deportation
By Washington Journal Of Law, Technology & Arts
Photo by Matt Barnard on Pexels.com By: Claire Kenneally CPB One: From Cattle to Children CPB One, launched in October 2022, was a mobile app designed to expedite cargo inspections…
UK Constitutional Law Association | The Blog
Kirsty Hughes: Immigration and proposals to amend Article 8 ECHR
By UKCLA
Backlash against the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and the Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA) is heavily driven by immigration and is often a direct reaction to it. This…
The Asylumist
USCIS Restricts Work Permits for Asylum Seekers
By Jason Dzubow
Asylum seekers are eligible for an Employment Authorization Document (EAD) while their application is pending. Although EADs are issued for […]
ImmigrationProf Blog
Attorney General Limits Asylum for Women
Attorney General Pam Bondi is limiting asylum for victims of domestic violence. See Shepelsky Law Group's summary of two important rulings issued this week:"In Matter of S-S-F-M-, Bondi brought back…
ImmigrationProf Blog
The Conversation: Sanctuary cities in the US were born in the 1980s as Central American refugees fled civil wars
In Sanctuary cities in the US were born in the 1980s as Central American refugees fled civil wars for The Conversation, Laura Madokoro discusses how the Sanctuary Movement emerged amid a…
UK Human Rights Blog
Weekly Round-Up: ‘One-in, one-out’, restriction zones, suspects’ asylum status, seeking parole, and libel in the courts
In UK News: The first migrants were detained under the new ‘one-in, one-out’ deal with France. The ‘Agreement on the Prevention of Dangerous Journeys’ came into force on 6 August;…
The Asylumist
Female Asylum Seekers Need Not Apply
By Jason Dzubow
A new decision by the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) seeks to restrict the ability of women to obtain asylum […]