The Latest Breaking News from Immigration

Sri Lankan immigration officials stopped the president's brother and former finance minister Basil Rajapaksa from flying out of the country on Tuesday, as anger mounted over the island's worst economic crisis in decades.

[UPDATE: Though this is a practically important matter, it also just cries out "joke fodder" to me. I have no idea how it would go ("a rabbi, a Mormon, and a bride walk into a bar …"?), but I can just feel there's something there! Please post your candidates in…

Eligible Venezuelans will be able to live in the United States with temporary protected status for another 18 months, the Biden administration announced Monday, although Venezuelans who have arrived in the country after March 8, 2021, will not be eligible for the immigration relief.

BENGALURU: Employer sponsored green card processing delays have crossed the three-year wait time in 2022. David J Bier, associate director of immigration studies at Cato Institute, wrote on the US think tank’s blog, “Paying a $2,500 fee could cut this wait to “only” 2 years and 5 months. The government…

Patton Eidson evaded authorities for decades, but the biggest obstacle to his homecoming is not his once-secret criminal past.

Moroccan police on Saturday said they arrested more than 20 Africans suspected of planning an illegal crossing into Spain, after a deadly attempt last month. Police from the northern port city of Tangiers disrupted "an illegal immigration attempt and questioned 25 people originally from sub-Saharan Africa", the DGNS security service…

MUMBAI: A Pune resident was stopped from boarding a flight to the Maldives on Thursday after officials at the Mumbai International Airport's immigration counter found a few pages missing from his passport which he had allegedly torn and destroyed.

AUSTIN, Texas — Gov. Greg Abbott is testing state powers to enforce federal immigration laws, citing a surge of migrants at the Texas-Mexico border.

The Biden administration asked the Supreme Court on Friday to let immigration agencies implement a policy that sets enforcement priorities, after lower courts blocked it as part of a legal challenge brought by officials from Texas and Louisiana. The policy, issued by Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas in a September…

LOS ANGELES — After the girl's grandfather died, she traveled from Guatemala to the Texas border with her uncle.

Earlier this week, a panel of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals decided Arizona v. Biden. The context of the case is immigration law: three states (Arizona, Montana, and Ohio) had sued to obtain an injunction blocking the Department of Homeland Security from implementing a memorandum about enforcement priorities. The…