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 ...
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 ...
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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.” ...
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 ...