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Executive Action that Promotes Family Unity – Parole in Place
On June 18th, President Biden announced that the Department of Homeland Security will take action to ensure that U.S. citizens with noncitizen spouses and children can keep their families together, using Parole in Place. This process, the details of which will not be announced until later this summer, will allow certain noncitizen spouses of U.S. citizens and their children to apply for lawful permanent residence. Many are already eligible to apply for lawful permanent residence but would have to leave the United States in order to do so. Using Parole in Place, they would not have to return to their country of origin.
Eligibility and Process for Parole in Place
Each applicant will be considered on a case-by-case discretionary basis:
Eligible to Naturalize Factsheet: Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD
This is a very interesting Factsheet, Eligible to Naturalize Factsheet: Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD , published by USCIS using Office of Homeland Security Statistics data from May 22, 2024! This well put together Factsheet provides information on selected characteristics of people with Lawful Permanent Residence (LPR) status in the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD area. There are 150,570 (Green Card holders) in this area of the country that are eligible to be naturalized U.S. citizen after meeting the requirements!
For more information, please review the USCIS Factsheet, “Eligible to Naturalize Factsheet: Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD“!
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Immigration News – Top News Stories – Biden Administration sued over New Border Policy
List of some of the Top News Stories related to the Biden Administration being sued over new Border Policy:
USA Today (usatoday.com), 6/12/24:
Immigration activists sue Biden administration over border policy
USCIS Electronic Reading Room
USCIS has an online Electronic Reading Room with access to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requested documents. The Reading Room is really a Web-based searchable database of public requested FOIA documents; mixed with USCIS documents that the government decided may have a larger public demand. You can use pull-downs to choose different listed subjects and include any month/year date from January 2011 to the present. You can also type in your own keywords to search.
Please visit this page for more information: Electronic Reading Room
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Immigrants in each State (fact sheets): Arkansas, California and Colorado – Update
UPDATE: Explore American Immigration Council’ interactive map to get more comprehensive information on U.S. immigration data and its impact!
The American Immigration Council (AIC) has released all fifty states and the District of Columbia, for a total of fifty-one updated state-by-state fact sheets highlighting immigration data and facts. These fact sheets highlight the demographic and economic impact of Immigrants in each state.
With national immigration policy being discussed, we thought that it would be a good time to provide some statistics on the Immigrant population in the United States as provided by this AIC research. Once a week we will be posting a blog with information on three states at a time. This week we will highlight; Arkansas, California and Colorado!
Eligible to Naturalize Fact Sheet: New Orleans-Metairie, LA
This is a very interesting Factsheet, Eligible to Naturalize Fact Sheet: New Orleans-Metairie, LA , published by USCIS using Office of Homeland Security Statistics data from April 30, 2024! This well put together Factsheet provides information on selected characteristics of people with Lawful Permanent Residence (LPR) status in the New Orleans-Metairie, LA area. There are 18,360 LPR (Green Card holders) in this area of the country that are eligible to be naturalized U.S. citizen after meeting the requirements!
For more information, please review the USCIS Factsheet, “Eligible to Naturalize Fact Sheet: New Orleans-Metairie, LA“!
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2024 USCIS Forms Updates – 5/23/24
The USCIS Forms Updates web page lists their most recently updated forms. The list includes forms as they publish them and includes a brief explanation for the update.
The updated form listed below is their most recent addition to the list, dated May 23, 2024!
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Radio Interview – Immigration is polarizing. What’s missing is empathy, experts say!
The Journalist, Roshae Hemmings interviewed Adriano Udani an assistant professor at University of Missouri-St. Louis teaching, “immigration and global migration”! He found that even in his classroom the subject of immigration is a polarizing subject. Adriano feels what is missing is empathy! The NPR Radio interview is just over 27 minutes of audio and presents an interesting and well-informed point of view!
For more detailed information and to listen to the audio stream click the link below:
“Immigration is polarizing. What’s missing is empathy, experts say“
Immigrants in each State (fact sheets): Alabama, Alaska and Arizona – Update
UPDATE: Explore American Immigration Council’ interactive map to get more comprehensive information on U.S. immigration data and its impact!
The American Immigration Council (AIC) has released all fifty states and the District of Columbia, for a total of fifty-one updated state-by-state fact sheets highlighting immigration data and facts. These fact sheets highlight the demographic and economic impact of Immigrants in each state.
With national immigration policy being discussed, we thought that it would be a good time to provide some statistics on the Immigrant population in the United States as provided by this AIC research. Once a week we will be posting a blog with information on three states at a time. This week we will highlight; Alabama, Alaska and Arizona!