Who is U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services actually supposed to serve? This isn’t a rhetorical question. Both the first and second Trump administrations have viewed USCIS as an agency not meant ...

Under the draft rule, work permits, officially known as Employment Authorization Documents, would be withheld until average asylum processing times fall below 180 days.

A government agency says that, under the plan, new work permit applications for asylum seekers 'would be paused for an ...

The Department of Homeland Security proposed a new rule this week that would force asylum seekers to wait one year before applying for a work permit for the first time. The department said requests ...

The new DHS proposal would pause processing of work permits for all new asylum applicants until average processing times for certain asylum applications reach 180 days or lower.

DHS' new proposal recommends changes to US work permits to target meritless applications, processing times and backlog.