The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) on Tuesday announced a new measure that drastically reduces the waiting period for refugees to receive work authorization in the United States, ...

A government agency says that, under the plan, new work permit applications for asylum seekers 'would be paused for an ...

Gift Article 10 Remaining As a subscriber, you have 10 articles to gift each month. Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. LANSING — The state, not schools, would issue work permits ...

Asylum applicants may be forced to wait 18 months to apply to work legally in the U.S. under the new rule.

NEW ORLEANS — Vilma Palacios has been held at the Basile, Louisiana detention center since June, even though she says she was in the process of renewing her work permit. “I told him 'why am I under ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul says there are 32,000 jobs ready and waiting for the immigrants who have flooded New York in recent months — but an apparent bottleneck in the federal work permit approval process ...

In the dictionary of government service, there is perhaps no word more destructive to progress than “indefinitely.” When a system stalls or when a processing unit ceases to function without a clear ...