Asylum Processing Rule News Today

USCIS finalized its fee rule, which impacts the filing costs for almost all applications. The new fees will take effect April 1, 2024.

In order to separate fact from fiction, here is an annotated version of the Department of Homeland Security’s recently released “Update on Southwest Border Security and Preparedness Ahead of Court Ordered Lifting of Title 42”. Excerpts from the Update are in the text boxes, followed by my observations.

When Title 42 expires on Dec. 21, DHS will process migrants encountered at the border “without proper travel documents using its longstanding Title 8 authorities, which provide for meaningful consequences, including barring individuals who are removed from re-entry for five years,” DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced this week. 

NEW YORK – As the Biden administration steps up the use of expedited removal, Human Rights First released a new report, “Pretense of Protection: Biden Administration and Congress Should Avoid Exacerbating Expedited Removal Deficiencies.” The report details systemic deficiencies in the implementation of expedited removal, the insufficiency and undermining of safeguards, and the weaponization of expedited removal t