On June 7, 2024, the Department of Homeland Security and Department of Justice issued an Interim Final Rule, preventing virtually all asylum seekers who enter the United States irregularly from qualifying for asylum. NIPNLG submitted a comment...
NIPNLG submitted a public comment strongly opposing a DHS proposed rule, which would allow asylum officers to apply complex bars at border fear screenings for the first time ever. These bars which may result from false criminal charges by persecutory...
This Practice Advisory is an update on the FAQs NIPNLG released in October 2023. Following advocacy by NIPNLG with USCIS concerning some unclear language in its Guidance, USCIS updated its instructions on February 12, 2024. This updated Practice...
The National Immigration Project and 44 other civil and human rights groups who represent or work closely with people from Arab, Middle Eastern, Muslim, and South Asian communities delivered a letter to the U.S. Department of Justice to express...
Asylum law is constantly changing both substantively and procedurally. This webinar will focus on complex procedural issues that arise in asylum practice. The speakers will discuss topics including: representing principal and derivative applicants...
The “Circumvention of Lawful Pathways” Rule Leaves Indigenous Peoples with No Pathway to Seek Asylum
A solidarity letter to support Indigenous Peoples’ concerns about the exclusion of Indigenous Peoples from “lawful pathways” to seek asylum under recent changes to U.S. asylum processes.
The Biden Administration recently announced an Asylum Ban for those seeking asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border who have not followed limited “legal pathways” or sought, and been denied, asylum in a third country en route to the border. This Practice...
In February 2023, the Biden Administration issued a proposed rule which would ban most asylum seekers who cross unlawfully into the United States from obtaining asylum. Modeled after a Trump-era rule the “Circumvention of Lawful Pathways” (CLP) Rule...
The Trump administration published myriad regulations seeking to restrict access to asylum and related protections. The worst of these regulations were enjoined through litigation, including Pangea Legal Servs.I v. U.S. Dep't of Homeland Sec., 501 F...
This factsheet breaks down four essential facts about Sections 1325 and 1326 prosecutions and addresses how they are used today. To learn more about how the laws impact people prosecuted for immigration-related offenses, read our amicus brief filed...