Immigration Protections
ASISTA Notes: HART Service Center One-Year Anniversary Engagement (March 27, 2024)
On March 27, 2024, USCIS held a One-Year Anniversary Engagement for the HART Service Center, which was scheduled to share updates from HART and for USCIS to get feedback, comments, and questions from stakeholders. These are ASISTA’s notes from that engagement. Please note that USCIS stated that they collected questions submitted to them, but did…
Read MoreUSCIS National Engagement: 2024 Final Fee Rule (Date of Engagement Feb. 22, 2024)
On February 22, 2024, USCIS held a national engagement to discuss the 2024 Final Fee Rule. These are ASISTA’s notes from that engagement, which focus on the portions of the engagement most relevant to practitioners representing immigrant survivors.
Read MoreVAWA Practice Advisory: VAWA Self-Petition Policy Updates (June 2022)
ASISTA, the Immigrant Legal Resource Center (“ILRC”), and Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. (“CLINIC”) co-authored the VAWA Practice Advisory: VAWA Self-Petition Policy Updates. Click here to access the Executive Summary: VAWA Self-Petition Policy Updates (June 2022), and here to download the practice advisory in Word version. This project was supported by Grant No. 15JOVW-21-GK-02240-MUMU awarded…
Read MoreASISTA Statement on New Path to Work Authorization for U visa petitioners
June 14, 2021 ASISTA applauds USCIS’s policy alert announcing work authorization for U visa petitioners who present a bona fide case. This policy will help alleviate the myriad barriers that victims and their families face as a result of the significant processing delays in the U visa program. Currently there are nearly 270,000 individuals with…
Read MoreComment Today! USCIS Fraud Tip Form
On February 15, 2019 the Department of Homeland Security’s U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) published a proposed form for notice and comment to collect information from the general public regarding purported immigration fraud. At ASISTA, we are particularly concerned about this Fraud Tip form as it represents another tool for abusers and perpetrators of crime to…
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