Leiva Law Firm- East Bay

10/07/2020

How do you solve a problem that’s 340 million pages thick? Stephen Goss, chief actuary of the Social Security Administration, is currently trying to figure that out.

09/30/2020

The fee changes would have increased the cost to apply to become a U.S. citizen from $640 to $1,160 on Friday.

09/15/2020

With all the relentless unconstitutional actions taken by this administration. It is messages like this that keep us going every day. Every successful case is motivation to keep going.

08/17/2020

https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2020/08/17/uscis-staff-furloughs-will-grind-legal-immigration-to-a-halt/

The Trump administration may achieve what many see as its long-held objective of bringing the U.S. legal immigration system to a halt.

08/13/2020

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53740840 #

A proposed rule would allow officials to deny US citizens and legal residents entry over Covid-19.

07/31/2020

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/31/politics/uscis-new-fees/index.html

The Trump administration is dramatically increasing fees for dozens of immigration and work applications, including a more than 80 percent increase on naturalization applications and a first-time fee for asylum applicants.

07/31/2020

https://www.uscis.gov/green-card/green-card-processes-and-procedures/public-charge/injunction-of-the-inadmissibility-on-public-charge-grounds-final-rule

On July 29, 2020, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) in State of New York, et al. v. DHS, et al. and Make the Road NY et al. v. Cuccinelli, et al. enjoined the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from enforcing, applying, implementing, or treating as effective the...

07/29/2020

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/29/politics/public-charge-coronavirus/index.html

A federal judge blocked the Trump administration from implementing its controversial "public charge" rule during the coronavirus pandemic

07/26/2020

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/24/politics/ice-furloughs-august/index.html

US Immigration and Citizenship Services, the federal agency responsible for legal immigration processing, pushed back a planned furlough date for more than half of its workforce until August 31.

07/25/2020

https://www.kob.com/national-news/lawyer-all-new-daca-applications-put-in-pending-bucket/5805342/?cat=600

PHOENIX (AP) - The U.S. government said Friday that it's putting new DACA applications in a "pending" bucket while officials decide whether to again try to end the program for young immigrants, keeping enrollment stalled even though the Supreme Court ruled last month that it was improperly ended.

07/09/2020

https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/07/08/888871130/harvard-mit-sue-immigration-officials-over-rule-blocking-some-international-stud

The policy — which bars foreign students unless they have in-person classes — will "create as much chaos for universities and international students as possible," the schools said Wednesday.