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 ...

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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 ...

The Department of Homeland Security is further clamping down on processing immigration applications after two National Guard members were shot by an Afghan national. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration ...