Issuing two separate orders (here and here) on the Trump Administration’s Travel Ban today, the U.S. Supreme Court allowed the third iteration of the ban, issued via Presidential Proclamation on September 24, 2017, to take full immediate effect. We detailed the ban in...
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals today issued an order reinstating the Trump Administration’s third version of a travel ban. The ban was announced in President Trump’s September 24, 2017 proclamation and is now in effect; affected are nationals of Chad, Iran, Libya,...
In two separate Federal Court decisions issued on October 17, 2017, the majority of the travel restrictions set forth in President Trump’s September 24, 2017 proclamation titled “Enhancing Vetting Capabilities and Processes for Detecting Attempted Entry into the...
As discussed in an earlier post, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced on August 28, 2017 that it will cease waiving interviews of applicants applying for “adjustment of status” (AOS) to U.S. permanent residence (green card) based on employment. As part of the Trump administration’s plan to apply “extreme vetting” to would-be immigrants (and others), employment-based AOS applicants will be required to undergo an in-person interview at a USCIS field office. Approximately 130,000 applicants are expected to be affected per year.
On September 24, 2017 President Trump announced an extended and enhanced version of the travel ban that was previously in place under Executive Order 13780 (EO-2). The Presidential Proclamation titled “Enhancing Vetting Capabilities and Processes for Detecting Attempted Entry into the United States by Terrorists or other Public-Safety Threats,” a related Fact Sheet, and FAQs for the new ban are available on the White House website. As with EO-2, the ban affects immigrant and nonimmigrant visa issuance only. Therefore, nationals from the affected countries who already hold visas will not have those revoked. The U.S. Department of State has also announced that previously scheduled visa appointments will not be cancelled.
As noted in our prior blog post, the U.S. Supreme Court has partially reinstated the Trump Administration’s second Executive Order regarding travel and refugee admissions (“EO-2”), after several lower court orders impeded its implementation. However, the Supreme Court did exempt from EO-2’s reach nationals of the six affected countries with a “credible claim of a bona fide relationship with a person or entity in the United States,” such as a “close familial relationship.
Executive Order 13780 (EO-2), signed by President Trump on March 6, 2017, ordered the suspension of entry by citizens and nationals of six countries – Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen – for at least 90 days from its effective date of March 16, 2017. Litigation in U.S. federal courts temporarily prevented the ban from being carried out. The Trump Administration appealed these courts’ decisions and, on June 26, 2017, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) decided to hear the Trump Administration’s appeals. Pending its full review and decision, SCOTUS partially reinstated EO-2.
On June 26, 2017, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) decided to hear the Trump Administration’s appeals from the decisions of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, related to the administration’s second Executive Order regarding travel and refugee admissions (“EO-2”). SCOTUS will hear arguments from the parties in October 2017.
News Release from Jewell Stewart & Pratt PCOn June 12, 2017 the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued an order upholding the District Court’s decision to block President Trump’s second Executive Order regarding travel and refugee admissions (i.e.,...
