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ImmigrationProf Blog
Guest Post: Opening the Border but Shutting the Door by Professor Raquel Aldana
Last week, we posted about a group of UC Davis students who spent spring break helping migrants in Tijuana, Mexico. This guest post offers some impressions about the trip. Opening the…
ImmigrationProf Blog
DHS Announces New Asylum Rule
The Biden administration has posted a new asylum rule. The rule is designed "to settle claims at a faster pace and help alleviate the immigration court backlog," reports Priscilla Alvarez…
ImmigrationProf Blog
New Report: “Lives in Limbo: How the Boston Asylum Office Fails Asylum Seekers”
A new report authored by immprof Anna R. Welch of the University of Main School of Law, the Refugee and Human Rights Clinic at the University of Maine School of…
California Immigration Lawyer Blog
Rally to End Title 42 Expulsions and Welcome Asylum Seekers With Dignity
By Geri Kahn
There will be an Immigration Rally today at the federal building in San Francisco! Several immigrants’ rights groups together with Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity will be holding a rally…
ImmigrationProf Blog
From the Bookshelves: Teaching Migration and Asylum Law (2022)
Teaching Migration and Asylum Law (eds. Richard Grimes, Vera Honuskova, and Urich Stege 2022)A new teaching bible focuses attention on experiential education in refugee and asylum law. Essays include Richard…
SmartMove2 UK Visa Blog
Are the UK Immigration policies helping Ukrainian refugees to seek asylum?
On March 11th 2022, Priti Patel (Home Secretary of the UK) announced “Ukrainians with passports will be able to apply for UK visas online from Tuesday”. The move has been…
David Hirson & Partners, LLP Blog
Is the fast-tracked immigration docket fair to immigrants?
By Supriyag.shinde@thomsonreuters.com
Immigration cases are backlogged in California and all across the country. In fact, the average time to resolve an immigration case in the U.S. is almost four years. Waiting on…
Ackah Business Immigration Law
Episode 38: Texas Immigration Lawyer Wendy Whitt: How Iraqis Can Move to Canada from the United States
By Publisher
Texas immigration lawyer Wendy Whitt of Whitt Law PLLC recently asked Canadian immigration lawyer Evelyn Ackah about how her Iraqi clients who are facing long waits for a U.S. asylum…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Inaugural Fourth Circuit Asylum Law Conference
Join the William & Mary Law School Immigration Clinic, William & Mary Center for Racial and Social Justice, and Immigrant Justice Corps for the Inaugural Fourth Circuit Asylum Law Conference.Conference…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Immigrants’ Rights Organizations Respond to Federal Court Ruling Blocking the Government From Expelling Families to Danger Under Title 42
This statement was posted today on the UC Hastings Center for Gender and Refugee Studies website:'A federal appeals court today issued a ruling that will prohibit the government from misusing…