Integration of the Department of Homeland Security
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is a department that protects the nation against terrorist attacks by coordinating the nation’s defense forces. It provides citizenship and immigration services. This department is mainly composed of these organizations: U.S. Citizenship and immigration services (USCIS): is the government agency that oversees legal immigration […]
What is USCIS?
United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) It is the federal agency that oversees legal immigration to the United States and is part of the Department of Homeland Security. Functions: Naturalization or Citizenship process: Consists of interested persons submitting their applications and the USCIS determines their eligibility, processes the applications […]
WHAT IS ICE (U.S. IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT)?
ICE was created in 2003 by a merger between parts of the U.S. Customs Service and the Immigration and Naturalization Service. It is responsible for enforcing federal laws related to border control, customs and immigration, and is the internal immigration police. It has more than 20,000 employees with more than […]
NOTICE OF ONE YEAR FILING DEADLINE FOR ASYLUM APPLICATIONS
On November 4, 2020, the Department of Homeland Security issued a notice explaining that due to the “Mendez Rojas” agreement, individuals who were not notified of the one-year period to file their asylum applications after their arrival in the United States may file their applications until April 22, 2022. This […]
The first 100 days of the Biden Administration were very active on immigration matters
In the first days of Biden’s administration, many beneficial things were done for U.S. immigration policy. Among the 17 executive actions Biden signed his first afternoon in office were the rescission of the Trump travel ban on nationals from a number of predominantly Muslim countries, a pause on wall construction […]
Telephone or Virtual Presence at hearings due to COVID-19
Covid 19 has been an event that has transformed many of the things that we already knew. One of them is the virtual or telephone presence in the hearings of the people who are carrying out political asylum processes. Previously it was well known that the presence of our clients […]