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    Why Some DACA Renewals Are Taking Longer — and What You Can Do

    Why Some DACA Renewals Are Taking Longer — and What You Can Do

    Ignacia Rodriguez Kmec

    Published Mar 24, 2026 U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) reports that most of their DACA renewal requests are taking 3.5 months.

    Higher Education for Immigrant Students
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    Higher Education for Immigrant Students

    Published Sep 8, 2025 This toolkit provides resources for students, advocates, and legislators interested in...

    USCIS Fee Schedule Changes Expected to Go Into Effect April 1st

    USCIS Fee Schedule Changes Expected to Go Into Effect April 1st

    Talia Horrow and Ignacia Rodriguez Kmec

    Published 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...

    Tracking DACA Recipients’ Access to Health Care

    Tracking DACA Recipients’ Access to Health Care

    Published Jun 13, 2022 This resource reports on findings from a survey of 1,021 DACA recipients administered by Tom K. Wong of the University of California, San Diego, United We Dream, the National Immigration Law Center, and the Center for American Progress, in...

    Caught in an Educational Dragnet: How the School-to-Deportation Pipeline Harms Immigrant Youth and Youth of Color

    Caught in an Educational Dragnet: How the School-to-Deportation Pipeline Harms Immigrant Youth and Youth of Color

    Sarah Kim Pak, Ignacia Rodriguez Kmec, and Emma Tynan + 1 more

    Published May 19, 2022 In 2017, a high school sophomore named Alex doodled the name of his Honduran hometown and his...

    Next Senate COVID-19 Bill Must Include 5 Key Immigrant-Inclusive Provisions of House HEROES Act

    Next Senate COVID-19 Bill Must Include 5 Key Immigrant-Inclusive Provisions of House HEROES Act

    Ignacia Rodriguez Kmec

    Published May 28, 2020 When the U.S. Senate returns from recess in early June, your senators will have yet another opportunity to provide crucial relief to people in immigrant communities who, unacceptably, have been left out of the COVID-19 relief bills passed so...

    DACA Renewal Guidance in Light of USCIS Office Closures and the Forthcoming U.S. Supreme Court Decision

    DACA Renewal Guidance in Light of USCIS Office Closures and the Forthcoming U.S. Supreme Court Decision

    Ignacia Rodriguez Kmec

    Published 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

    Know Your Power. Consider Renewing Your DACA Today

    Diana Pliego and Ignacia Rodriguez Kmec

    Published 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...

    Should I renew my DACA now?

    Should I renew my DACA now?

    Ignacia Rodriguez Kmec

    Published 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...

    What to Look for in Any “DACA Solution”

    What to Look for in Any “DACA Solution”

    Ignacia Rodriguez Kmec

    Published Jun 14, 2018

    3 Important Points to Know about Texas’s DACA Lawsuit

    3 Important Points to Know about Texas’s DACA Lawsuit

    Ignacia Rodriguez Kmec

    Published May 4, 2018 On May 1, 2018, Texas and six other states filed a lawsuit against the federal government challenging the legality of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program. They filed the case in the U.S. District Court for the Southern...

    Cinco cosas que debe saber sobre el último anuncio de USCIS

    Cinco cosas que debe saber sobre el último anuncio de USCIS

    Ignacia Rodriguez Kmec

    Published Jan 24, 2018 El Servicio de Ciudadanía e Inmigración de EE.UU. (USCIS, por su sigla en inglés) ha anunciado que volverá a aceptar solicitudes de renovación de DACA (Acción Diferida para los Llegados en la Infancia) a partir del 13 de enero de...

    Five Things to Know about the Latest USCIS Announcement

    Five Things to Know about the Latest USCIS Announcement

    Ignacia Rodriguez Kmec

    Published Jan 13, 2018 U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has announced that it would resume accepting DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) renewal applications beginning January 13,...

    NILC’s Immigration Policy Advocate Shares Tips for Coping with Holiday and DACA-related Stress

    NILC’s Immigration Policy Advocate Shares Tips for Coping with Holiday and DACA-related Stress

    Ignacia Rodriguez Kmec

    Published Nov 21, 2017 In this week’s podcast episode from the Butterfly Story Collective, DACA recipient Deniss talks about the importance of finding joy and laughter during times of high stress.

    What Does the DAPA Rescission Mean and What Implications Does It Have for DACA?

    What Does the DAPA Rescission Mean and What Implications Does It Have for DACA?

    Ignacia Rodriguez Kmec

    Published Jun 23, 2017 On June 15, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary John Kelly signed a memo rescinding the Obama administration’s November 2014 memorandum that announced a deferred action program for parents of citizens and lawful permanent...