U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has decided to give precedence to the most recently filed asylum applications in a bid to stem its backlog. The agency announced it will return to a “first in ...
After a seven‑year wait for asylum, a San Diego rideshare driver was detained at Camp Pendleton and held at Otay Mesa.
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) recently announced that it has paused the adjudication of (1) all pending asylum applications regardless of the applicant’s country of citizenship or ...
On Tuesday Dec. 2, 2025, USCIS released a policy memorandum titled “Hold and Review of all Pending Asylum Applications and all USCIS Benefit Applications Filed by Aliens from High-Risk Countries.” ...
A rule proposed by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security could delay asylum seekers’ applications for work authorization by 173 years.
The Trump administration is stripping protections of some asylum applicants who filed as far back as 2019. NPR has learned that dozens of immigrants across the U.S. have received letters in the mail ...