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Deferred Action
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The Insightful Immigration Blog
Deferred Action for Special Immigrant Juveniles Survives Trump’s Attempts to Eliminate It
By Cyrus Mehta
By Cyrus D. Mehta and Kaitlyn Box* On June 6, 2025, USCIS issued a policy alert stating that it would eliminate the automatic consideration of deferred action for Special Immigrant…
The Insightful Immigration Blog
The Inherently Moral Executive Actions on Immigration Cannot Die Under Trump
By Cyrus D. Mehta and Kaitlyn Box* The Trump administration is doing its best to kill executive actions that benefit vulnerable noncitizens. In a June 6, 2025 Policy Alert, the…
Adoption, Surrogacy and the Law
USCIS Changes Policy: No More Automatic Deferred Action for SIJS Recipients
In a significant policy shift, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has announced that it will no longer grant deferred action automatically to individuals who are granted Special Immigrant Juvenile…
PrawfsBlawg
Types of injunctions
Main Sunday, May 18, 2025Types of injunctionsA point to elaborate on following the argument and a lot of commentary (including from Nick Bagley in The Atlantic) on the birthright-citizenship case:…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Resources on Labor-Based Deferred Action
Professor Mary Yanik shared information that Tulane, NIPNLG, NILC, Organized Power in Numbers, & Arriba Las Vegas Worker Center have released an updated version of the immigration practice manual on…
The Insightful Immigration Blog
Granting Deferred Action to Aging Out Children in Lawful Status Is Preferable to Having Them Start All Over Again
By Cyrus Mehta
By Cyrus D. Mehta Children of beneficiaries of approved I-140 petitions that are caught in the employment-based backlogs are in danger of aging out if they turn 21 and are…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Training to Deferred Action for Labor Enforcement
Mary Yanik (Tulane Law School) and Lynn Damiano Pearson (consulting with NILC) will be facilitating a short and interactive webinar for law students who are helping immigrant workers apply for…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Happy Birthday DACA!
On June 15, 2012, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy, which provided limited relief to undocumented young people brought to the…
ImmigrationProf Blog
NIPNLG: Seeking Labor-Based Deferred Action
Last Wednesday, I had the pleasure of attending an NIPNLG webinar on Seeking Labor-Based Deferred Action. There's a Vimeo recording of the event but it requires a password. I recommend…
Immigration Blog
Coalition of States Files Motion to Shutter DACA Program
By Cynthia Liao
The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy continues to be under attack. In Judge Andrew Hanen’s court in the Southern District of Texas, a coalition of Republican states filed…