Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson designated Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for 18 months due to the outbreak of Ebola disease in West Africa. The TPS means that eligible nationals of these three countries (and people without nationality who last habitually resided in one of those three countries) will […]
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Expanding Prosecutorial Discretion
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published the memorandum detailing President Obama’s executive actions exercising prosecutorial discretion with respect to individuals who came to the United States as children (DACA) and with respect to certain individuals who are the parents of U.S. citizens or permanent residents (DAPA). A. Expanding DACA: remove the age cap and […]
President Obama’s Deferred Action for Parents
On November 20, 2014 president Barack Obama announced his long awaited executive action on immigration, which will affect an estimated 5 million undocumented people currently living in the United States. While the president emphasized his actions don’t provide a path to citizenship the new executive rule allows the following: Undocumented parents of U.S. citizen and […]
