USCIS Fee Schedule Changes Expected to Go Into Effect April 1st
Talia Horrow and Ignacia Rodriguez Kmec
Mar 25, 2024 On January 31, 2024, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published the updated U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Fee Schedule. This final rule published in the Federal Register aimed to adjust certain benefit request...
What to Know About the Biden Administration’s Proposed Restoration of DACA Recipients’ Access to Affordable Care Act Programs
Gabrielle Lessard
May 5, 2023 The senseless exclusion of immigrants with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) from Affordable Care Act (ACA) coverage is finally ending. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has published a proposed rule that would...
Congress Must Act to Prevent 300K DACA Recipients from Losing Health Care
Ben D’Avanzo
Nov 30, 2022 The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program has been a critical tool for immigrant youth in providing some level of stability, accessing education, and facilitating the ability to provide for themselves and their family. But...
Jun 29, 2022 With two back-to-back federal court hearings related to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (“DACA”) policy coming up on July 6 and 7, we can all use a refresher on what’s going on. We’ve got you...
Supreme Court Overturns Trump Administration’s Termination of DACA
Jun 22, 2020 On June 18, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a 5-4 decision finding that the Trump administration’s termination of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) was (1) judicially reviewable and (2) done in an arbitrary and capricious...
Top 5 Things to Know about DACA Now That the Supreme Court Has Ruled
Luis Leyva-Castillo
Jun 22, 2020 First, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision on June 18, 2020, holding that the Trump administration’s 2017 attempt to terminate Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) was improper. The Court found that the Trump administration’s...
DACA Renewal Guidance in Light of USCIS Office Closures and the Forthcoming U.S. Supreme Court Decision
Ignacia Rodriguez Kmec
Apr 3, 2020 In response to the COVID-19 public health crisis, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has clarified its process for handling Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) renewal requests. According to USCIS’s website, its...
Know Your Power. Consider Renewing Your DACA Today
Diana Pliego and Ignacia Rodriguez Kmec
Jan 17, 2020 Earlier this week, on January 13, 2020, we marked the two-year anniversary of the first injunction that reopened the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) renewal application process. The first injunction and the injunctions that...
Stakes Are Huge for Hundreds of Thousands and Their Communities after Today’s Supreme Court Argument
Trudy Rebert
Nov 12, 2019 Departing the U.S. Supreme Court into a cold fall day, dozens of people whose lives are in the balance — plaintiffs, their mothers, and other Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients — emerged from today’s oral argument...
Oct 25, 2019 Next month, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in three consolidated Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) cases. But it will be doing more than that. Its deliberation, on any scale, is a debate over whether I and hundreds...
New DACA Survey Results Confirm Gains for Recipients, Highlight Risks of Uncertainty as Cases Head to the Supreme Court
Holly Straut-Eppsteiner
Sep 25, 2019 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) has provided approximately 825,000 immigrant youth with work permits and temporary protection from deportation since 2012. In September 2017, the Trump administration announced it was rescinding...
Hard Work by Brave People Made House Passage of the Dream and Promise Act Possible, but Much Work Remains
Berenice Gonzalez
Jun 7, 2019 The coming-of-age experience of someone with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), like me, is very different from that of someone who is fully undocumented. Though my family did have to come up with an almost prohibitive sum of money...
Dream and Promise Act: An Important Step Forward for Our Communities
Diana Pliego
Mar 14, 2019 Earlier this week, a bill — the Dream and Promise Act of 2019 — was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives that would provide long-overdue, permanent relief to people who have become even more vulnerable since President Trump and...
Aug 7, 2018 Lately people have been asking, Why the uptick in chatter about renewing DACA now? Starting this summer, advocates began encouraging people to renew as soon as possible, even though the option to renew has been around since...
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