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U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has decided to give precedence to the most recently filed asylum applications in a bid to stem its backlog. The agency announced it will return to a “first in ...

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced Tuesday it is placing a hold on all pending asylum applications and will pause all benefit requests by foreign nationals from 19 ...

(CNN) — A federal judge in Maryland on Thursday temporarily paused the government’s rollout of a new annual asylum application fee, citing confusion and inconsistent policies between federal agencies.

As USCIS became overwhelmed by border crossings in recent years, applications for asylum filed inside the United States grew. A July 2024 report by the Homeland Security Department’s inspector general ...

The Department of Homeland Security published a proposed rule last month that would increase the time asylum-seeking aliens ...

The Trump administration is stripping protections of some asylum applicants who filed as far back as 2019. NPR has learned that dozens of immigrants across the U.S. have received letters in the mail ...