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The Department of State announced that it has restored passport service to the standard six- to eight-week processing time for routine passport applications, and to no more than three weeks for expedited service.

Effective October 1, 2007, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has announced an 18-month automatic extension of employment authorization for Liberians (and persons without nationality who last habitually resided in Liberia) who have been provided deferred enforced departure (DED) under a memorandum sent on September 12, 2007, from President Bush to Secretary of Homeland Security Michael… Read More

New York’s Governor Eliot Spitzer has proposed allowing foreign nationals who reside in New York, regardless of status, to obtain driver’s licenses using foreign identity documents, such as passports and birth certificates, without having to present Social Security cards. The idea is to reduce the number of unlicensed, uninsured drivers while aiding law enforcement efforts… Read More

Several Latino families and individuals, represented by the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund and an international law firm, filed a class action suit on September 20, 2007, against the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) division of the Department of Homeland Security, charging that its agents unlawfully broke into and entered the homes of… Read More

The American Immigration Lawyers Association has produced a video on immigration reform. The video debunks common myths, such as that immigrants are a drain on the economy, that Americans do not support comprehensive immigration reform, that legalizing the undocumented is unfair to those who are waiting in line, that immigration reform is really an “amnesty”… Read More