- In an interim final rule issued this morning, USCIS has stopped issuing automatic extensions on employment authorization for those who have timely filed for renewal effective immediately. Applicants who filed for renewal before today will still be able to receive automatic extensions, but applicants who file for renewal today or later will generally be at risk of losing employment authorization, and thus their jobs, until USCIS completes processing of the renewal application. People renewing work authorization based on Temporary Protected Status will not be impacted by this change, but very few will be protected by this since the administration is slowly eliminating TPS altogether. The administration is accepting public comments on this change, and anyone may submit comments until December 1st. What this ruling means (in English, Spanish, Portuguese, and Haitian Creole)
- For the third time this year, the administration is making major changes to ICE leadership. This time, ICE is reassigning directors at nearly half of ICE’s local field offices. While little detail is known, including which field offices will be impacted, rumor is that many of these directors will be replaced with officials from CBP, further cementing that agency’s role in internal civil immigration enforcement. The administration has not provided any reason for these changes, but many suspect it is because the White House is unhappy that the agency has not reached its goal of 3,000 daily civil immigration arrests.