Green Card Update: Applicants Impacted by Trump Travel Ban Get Legal Win
Summary
A federal judge ordered the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to resume processing green card applications that had been paused for immigrants from countries affected by the Trump administration's travel ban. The judge ruled that the pause was unlawful and must end so that the applications of 83 immigrants already in the U.S. can move forward.Key Facts
- A federal judge in Maryland issued a 39-page ruling against USCIS’s pause on green card applications.
- The paused applications involved immigrants from 39 countries impacted by the travel ban or visa restrictions.
- 83 applicants currently in the United States were affected directly by the pause.
- The judge said USCIS cannot refuse to review or decide on applications indefinitely.
- USCIS collected over $1 billion in fees from about 2 million applications during the pause.
- The travel ban and application pause were part of policies from President Donald Trump’s administration.
- The decision may help others on the travel ban list who were waiting for their cases to be heard.
- USCIS and the Department of Homeland Security had not responded publicly to the ruling as of the article’s publication.
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