On January 28, 2025, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that it would vacate the January 17, 2025 notice made under the Biden administration to extend the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designation for Venezuela. Kristi Noem, the new DHS Secretary under the Trump administration, took the position that the Biden […]
Temporary Restraining Order Granted Against Trump’s Attempt to End Automatic Birthright Citizenship
27 Jan
by Foster, on Immigration Updates
As widely expected, on President Trump’s first day in office, he issued an Executive Order for the stated purpose of limiting automatic birthright citizenship universally to all those born within the United States. In a hopeful sign of things to come in light of Trump’s many immigration-related Executive Orders during […]
Canada Restricts “Flagpoling” Access for Work Permit Renewal Processes
17 Jan
by Foster, on Immigration Updates
Amid lengthy adjudication times for Canadian work permit renewal applications, the Canadian government has limited access to “flagpoling”. Flagpoling is when foreign nationals who hold temporary resident status in Canada, leave Canada and, after a brief visit to the United States or St. Pierre and Miquelon, re-enter to access immigration […]
Effective January 21, 2025, Canada will implement new rules restricting the grant of open work permits to spouses of foreign students and foreign workers. These changes follow an announcement by the Canadian government late last year that the ability for spouses to work in Canada would be more limited than […]