AILA and Wasden Banias, LLP filed a lawsuit against DHS on March 22, 2021, challenging extraordinary processing delays on extensions of status and extensions of employment authorization documents (EAD) for H-4 and L-2 nonimmigrant spouses.
AILA celebrates the end of the Trump administration's public charge "wealth test" and offers gratitude to "everyone who collectively fought to see the battle against this unjust rule through to victory."
President Biden revoked former president Trump's immigrant visa ban, rejecting the previous administration's proclamation that the entry of immigrants presents a risk to the U.S. economy during the pandemic. However, he did not take action to revoke the e...
AILA and our litigation partners welcomed the district court emergency injunction which preserves and extends the validity of most visas from the 2020 lottery, and the news that the State Department had issued national interest exceptions for DV winners w...
The American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) welcomed changes to immigration enforcement priorities outlined in a memo from ICE Acting Director Tae Johnson but flagged key areas requiring additional action. The interim guidance is effective immedia...
AILA, NALEO Educational Fund, and the National Partnership for New Americans are proud to sponsor AILA's 15th Annual Citizenship Day, taking place virtually on Saturday, February 20, 2021, with dozens of naturalization clinics across the country.
AILA welcomed the introduction of the bipartisan Dream Act of 2021, calling on Congress "to pass this bill as a step forward toward legalization of the undocumented, and the many other necessary changes to our immigration laws our country requires."
AILA welcomed actions taken by the Biden administration that will continue to ameliorate the damage done over the past four years and move our immigration and asylum policies toward fairness and justice, however leaders cautioned that much more needs to b...
AILA, the Council, HRW, and Winston & Strawn LLP obtained documents about the Migrant Protection Protocols which reveal U.S. immigration agencies' efforts in 2019 to rapidly deport thousands of people from the United States through the little-known Electr...
AILA commended the Day One actions on immigration undertaken by the Biden administration, recognizing that "the Biden team got straight to work fulfilling promises on immigration."
