The US Immigration Fund (USIF) has entered into a partnership with the educational company, The Chopras Group, to promote the EB-5 US visa in India. It wants to raise as much as $125 million by 2018 from 250 Indian investors wanting to use the route to gain entry into the US. The US Immigration Fund […]

A study has found a large spike in the number of immigrants who have legal representation, several months after officials in Chicago set up a $1.3 million fund offering legal services to those facing deportation from the US. There has been a 30 percent jump in the number of lawyers representing immigrants at deportation hearings

Last week, the State Department told the Department of Homeland Security that a program protecting hundreds of thousands of Somalian and Central American undocumented immigrants from being returned to their home countries should be scrapped. This is according to the Washington Post. The Department of Homeland Security must announce today whether Temporary Protected Status (TPS)

Civil rights activists have filed a class-action lawsuit on behalf of Cambodian immigrants arrested by US immigration officials, who claim that they are being detained unlawfully. Nak Kim Cchoeun of Long Beach and Modesto California’s Mony Neth were recently taken into custody by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, together with a hundred immigrant refugees from Cambodia.

On Wednesday, a US judge ordered the release of an undocumented immigrant arrested with 46 other Indonesians in New Hampshire. This was in spite of a deportation order from the Trump administration. A 2010 deal arranged with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) enabled Terry Rombot to remain in the US until President Donald Trump told

The acting director of the Executive Office for Immigration Review in the Justice Department, James McHenry, says that the Trump administration would have to double the number of immigration judges to make any difference to the amount of backlogged cases, which has reached a record high. On Wednesday, McHenry told the House Judiciary subcommittee on

Immigrants from Nicaragua and Honduras who currently enjoy Temporary Protected Status (TPS) in the US will learn by Monday 6 November whether that status will be extended. If the Department of Homeland Security does not extend the program for the two nations, thousands of immigrants from Honduras and Nicaragua will lose the permission to live

The H-1B US visa issue remains contentious for the IT industry in India. The stance towards Indian workers in the US remains unchanged, despite assurances from Donald Trump of a system overhaul. In an email sent in early October, the Everest Group CEO, Peter Bendor-Samuel, said that Indian tech companies were not in the best

Immigrant rights activists and community leaders in San Francisco have called on the US government to extend the program that gives temporary protected status to immigrants from 13 nations, which are affected by environmental disasters or war. There are around 55,000 beneficiaries of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) in California, with somewhere between 10,000 and 20,000

The Georgia Department of Corrections has applied to take part in a contentious federal immigration enforcement program, which gives local and state officers the responsibility for enforcing federal immigration laws. The program, named 287(g), trains local and state officers to carry out some federal immigration duties in prisons or jails. These include interviewing inmates about

A coalition of advocacy groups in Illinois is urging immigrants to apply for US citizenship now that state legislature has restored funding for the necessary services. The New Americans Campaign, a nationwide campaign that has run for six years, is behind the effort. The campaign has already resulted in an increase of applications for US