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Meet the sports lawyer who organises visas for Tyson Fury and Canelo Alvarez

Sports immigration lawyer Sherrod Seward deals with some of the best combat sports athletes in the world and he spoke with Mirror Fighting about how the US visa process works

Daily Mirror

Four countries, six years, 7,000 miles: one Afghan family’s journey to the US

Zahra Amiri is among 41,000 working-age Afghans who have resettled in the US and are set to contribute $1.4bn to the US economy in their first year of work, according to new data

The Guardian - US

Commentary: Congress should reject Biden administration’s asylum rule and ruin

The Biden administration has opened our southern border to an unlimited number of illegal immigrants from all parts of the globe -- and has no intention of changing course.

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H-1B Visa: US reaches cap for 2023

The US immigration agency has announced that it received a sufficient number of applications needed to reach the Congressionally mandated H1-B visa cap for the fiscal year 2023. Read more on Dynamite News:

Dynamite News

Asylum-seekers face delays on recent work permit applications

Yusuf Ali Sendil, a medical doctor who fled political persecution in Turkey, will lose his chance to be a resident at Rutgers University’s hospital in less than a month unless a U.S. immigration agency approves his work permit in time.

Tribune News Service

Asylum-seekers face delays on recent work permit applications - Roll Call

Thousands of asylum-seekers wait months more than expected for the backlogged immigration agency to approve their work permit requests.

Roll Call

More than a million could die waiting for green cards as US immigration buckles amid COVID

WASHINGTON — Milap Kashipara spent 16 years waiting for a green card that he hoped would lead to better opportunities for his three children than in India, as well as a chance to reunite with his siblings in California.

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US moves to slash long waits for Ukrainians, other newcomers who want permission to work

PHILADELPHIA — The federal government has issued a six-paragraph notice that portends a potentially huge improvement for Ukrainians fleeing to this country — cutting their wait for work permits by months.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Welcome to come, but not to work. Ukrainians fleeing war can’t get job permits in the US

PHILADELPHIA — Liliia Kravtsova fled the Ukrainian seaport city of Odesa as bombs exploded and people died, leaving behind her law practice and seeking safety in the United States.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Afghans in US immigration limbo watch Ukrainians breeze through

Thousands of at-risk Afghans continue to wait for their humanitarian parole and visa applications to progress.

Al Jazeera

Immigration agency backlog weighs on congressional offices

WASHINGTON — Immigration lawyer Diana Baurele spent weeks getting bounced around the bureaucracy of a U.S. immigration agency as she tried to renew work authorization documents for a home health care worker.

Tribune News Service

Thousands of Lawsuits Have Been Filed Over Wait Times, Backlogs at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services

While staffing up may alleviate the bottleneck, no amount of employees can keep the country's bad immigration system from working as designed.

Reason

Immigration agency backlog weighs on congressional offices - Roll Call

Member offices have fielded a growing pile of requests for help to speed their cases through the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.

Roll Call

Immigration agency taps community leaders to promote citizenship

Eight citizenship ambassadors will receive training to promote green card holders to apply for naturalization.

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Tribune News Service

Biden bets on new asylum rule to tame chaos at southern border

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is counting on a rule change to speed up asylum decisions at the southern border and help ward off the turmoil expected to come if a measure that limits those claims is allowed to expire.

Roll Call

Republican bid to nix asylum policy falls short in Senate - Roll Call

GOP senators fell short on a push to repeal a policy that’d overhaul how migrants’ asylum claims are processed after they cross the border.

The Hindu

U.S. Supreme Court declines to stop deportation of Indian citizen

Pankajkumar Patel had claimed to be American on driver’s license application

Reason

The Feds Wasted 66,000 Green Cards in the Middle of a Worker Shortage

The immigration bureaucracy is worsening one of the tightest labor markets in recent American history.

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Al Jazeera

‘Here we are beggars’: Afghan refugees languish in Madagascar

A small group of Afghan refugees say they are trapped on African island nation without health care, education or work.

Reuters

U.S. unveils rule to speed up asylum processing and deportations at border

The Biden administration on Thursday rolled out a sweeping new regulation that aims to speed up asylum processing and deportations at the U.S.-Mexico border, amid a record number of migrants seeking to enter the United States.

Tribune News Service

Inmigrantes con asilo pausan sus vidas a la espera de la tarjeta verde

WASHINGTON— Muhammad, miembro de un grupo minoritario que es perseguido en Pakistán, sueña con convertirse en abogado —concretamente en abogado de inmigración— para poder ayudar a personas como él.

Tribune News Service

Immigrants with asylum put lives on hold over green card waits

WASHINGTON — Muhammad, a member of a minority group persecuted in Pakistan, dreams of becoming a lawyer — specifically, an immigration lawyer so he can help people like himself.

Roll Call

Immigrants with asylum put lives on hold over green card waits - Roll Call

The green card wait for applicants filed by people with asylum ranges from 25 to 52 months - or more than four years.

Tribune News Service

New guidance released to shore up juvenile immigrant program

WASHINGTON — U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services will consider granting deferred action to minors awaiting green cards through their Special Immigrant Juvenile Status but who can’t obtain a visa because of existing backlogs.

Reuters

U.S. adopts rules easing path to green cards for abused, neglected minors

U.S. immigration authorities released new policies on Monday that will make it easier for immigrant minors who are victims of parental abuse and neglect to qualify for green cards, finalizing changes first proposed more than a decade ago.

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