U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is the largest investigative agency in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The agency’s primary mission is to protect national security, public safety and the integrity of the U.S. borders through the criminal and civil enforcement of federal laws governing border control, customs, trade and immigration. The agency’s […]
The United States Department of Homeland Security, DHS, is a Cabinet department of the United States federal government. All three of the principal agencies concerned with U.S. immigration are part of the Department of Homeland Security. On March 1, 2003, the Department of Homeland Security absorbed the Immigration and Naturalization Service and assumed its duties. […]
The coronavirus pandemic is rapidly spreading around the world. As immigration lawyers, we have created this page in order to educate employers and immigrants regarding how the pandemic may affect their immigration cases and to make sure that immigrants, whether or not they are documented, are not afraid to seek medical care. In-person services at […]
So far, Congress has not passed any of the spending bills needed to keep the government open beyond September 30, 2023. Unless these appropriations bills are passed, or Congress agrees on a temporary continuing resolution, funding for agencies will lapse on October 1, 2023, as the result of a government shutdown. If the government agencies […]
On May 27, 2021, John Trasviña, the Principal Legal Advisor for ICE, sent a memo to government attorneys enabling them to use prosecutorial discretion to dismiss pending cases in Immigration Court and to refrain from placing certain persons in removal proceedings. This memo could save many thousands of people, perhaps hundreds of thousands, from deportation. […]
We link to the most important government resources regarding US immigration across the internet including the websites of the following agencies: USCIS, ICE, CBP, the Immigration Courts, EOIR, BIA, State Department (DOS), Labor Department (DOL), OCAHO, the Department of Justice (DOJ), the Federal Courts and more. This page enables you to read and research all […]
