Last Friday, the Department of State published its final rule implementing new regulations regarding "birth tourism." Effective now, the new rule amends how and whether B nonimmigrant, or tourist, visas are issued, particularly to those who may be pregnant. The new...
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Month: January 2020
Is Terroristic Threats a Deportable Crime?
On January 2 of this new year, the Board of Immigration Appeals issued an important decision that signals an increasingly elastic understanding of just what constitutes a crime involving moral turpitude. In Matter of Salad, 27 I & N Dec. 733 (BIA 2020), the Court...
New Bars On Asylum
Continuing its assault on asylum, the Trump Administration has proposed new regulations that would further restrict an individual's eligibility to file for asylum. Under the proposed rule, the regulations would create an additional seven categories that would bar a...
You Can Be Denied Citizenship For Bad Acts
Late last year, USCIS adopted two significant policy changes pertaining to Good Moral Character for naturalization petitions. (Every applicant must demonstrate Good Moral Character in order to become a US Citizen.) The first one, which we previously covered, pertained...