The Department of Homeland Security’s Family Reunification Task Force has established a parole process for persons who were separated at the U.S.-Mexico border as a result of the Trump administration’s Zero-Tolerance Policy and other similar Trump...
Until Congress fixes the SIJS visa backlog, SIJS youth must wait years before a visa is available for them to seek lawful permanent residence. This resource is intended to help SIJS advocates better understand the system used by the U.S. Department...
As Congress continuously fails to pass humane immigration legislation, many noncitizens remain vulnerable to removal from the United States. While this legislative failure affects all noncitizens negatively, Congress’s failure to enact meaningful...
This Practice Advisory is an update on the FAQs NIPNLG released in October 2023. Following advocacy by NIPNLG with USCIS concerning some unclear language in its Guidance, USCIS updated its instructions on February 12, 2024. This updated Practice...
On December 1, 2023, the Board of Immigration Appeals issued a precedential decision, Matter of M‑R‑M‑S‑, 28 I&N Dec. 757 (BIA 2023), which purports to narrow the circumstances in which asylum seekers can prove that their membership in a family-based...
The Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) published a proposed rule on procedures that affect the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) and immigration judges’ authority to manage their dockets. NIPNLG submitted a comment that largely supported...
This practice advisory describes the Biden administration’s current prosecutorial discretion policy in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision in United States v. Texas, 143 S. Ct. 1964 (2023), focusing on the 2021 "Mayorkas Memo" and the 2022...
This details the intersection of pardons and immigration and explain why increasing the accessibility, transparency, and frequency with which governors, pardoning bodies, and the president grant pardons should be an advocacy priority.
This practice advisory, authored by the National Immigration Project and the Center for Gender and Refugee Studies, offers a comprehensive review of strategies for reopening cases that were denied under the Migrant Protection Protocols ("MPP")...
Individuals seeking to reopen their immigration proceedings after departing or being removed from the United States face significant hurdles, including the potential application of the regulatory post-departure bar. This updated practice advisory...