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Your Citizenship Doesn't Actually Expire. But the Government Just Set a Monthly Quota to Try to Take Some Back.
The US set a quota of 100-200 denaturalization cases a month. Here's the real math behind the headlines, and what it actually means for naturalized citizens. There are about 26 million naturalized U.S. citizens. If you're one of them, or you love one, you've probably absorbed the general headlines this year — "largest denaturalization effort ever," announced more than once, in more than one press release. What's harder to find anywhere is a straight answer to the question tha
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USCIS Can Now Send Your Asylum Case Straight to Court — Without Ever Talking to You First
Until this week, every affirmative asylum applicant got an interview first. Now USCIS can skip it entirely for a third of the backlog. Here's what that actually means. Until this week, if you applied for asylum in the U.S. on your own — not because you'd been caught crossing a border, not because you were already fighting deportation, but because you walked into the system voluntarily and asked for protection — there was one thing you could count on. Someone would sit down wi
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The $250 Visa Integrity Fee
The new $250 US Visa Integrity Fee, explained clearly: who pays, when it starts, refund rules, and a free calculator to see your exact total cost. The $250 Visa Integrity Fee: The Only Guide You Need (Everyone Else Has a Different Date). Immigrants.live Editorial Desk Search "visa integrity fee" right now and you'll find a dozen immigration law firms, each with a slightly different answer for when it starts, whether you're paying it yet, and whether you'll ever see that money
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The Court Nobody Used for 30 Years Just Got Its First Case. Here's Exactly How It Works.
The Alien Terrorist Removal Court can use secret evidence a person may never see. Created in 1996, never used until now. Here's exactly how the process works, step by step. In April 1996, Congress created a federal court specifically built to deport people the government calls terrorists, using evidence the accused person might never be allowed to see. Five judges were appointed to it. A courtroom exists for it in Washington, D.C. For the next thirty years, it did nothing. No
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A Judge Stopped USCIS's New Fee Rules the Night Before They Took Effect. Here's What Actually Changed.
Picture this: you have Temporary Protected Status. You've already renewed your work permit once under the current rules. You're expecting it to stay valid until the date printed on it. Then, one evening in July, you find out that starting tomorrow, that date might not count anymore — the government wants to shorten it, retroactively, based on a law that didn't even exist when you first applied. The Night Before New Fee Rules Kicked In, a Judge Stopped Them That was the realit
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The End of "Duration of Status": What DHS's New F-1 Rule Actually Means Before September 15, 2026
Three decades of student visa policy just ended, quietly, on a Friday in July The End of "Duration of Status": What DHS's New F-1 Rule Actually Means Before September 15, 2026 For more than 30 years, the deal for international students in the United States was simple: as long as you stayed enrolled and followed the rules, you didn't need to watch a clock. Your F-1 status lasted for the duration of your studies — that's literally what "Duration of Status," or D/S, means. No fi
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