Immigration

H-1B status is untouched, but the green-card line now stalls at different points. The extension clock still counts from when a PERM was filed, while certified cases face a 180-day deadline to reach USCIS.

DHS's own math charges even STEM extensions the full $70,000 in the rule's first year, and every dollar of the estimated $12.4 billion a year would go to the general Treasury, not ICE.

The Department of Homeland Security has scrapped the rule that limited how immigration officers weigh public-benefit use in green-card decisions — and wider discretion returns Sept. 18.

A 6-3 court held that the president cannot narrow by executive order a citizenship guarantee the majority located in the Constitution itself.

ICE hasn't had a Senate-confirmed director since 2017. Trump's pick of an Oklahoma trooper, Lance Schroyer, tests whether that decade-long gap finally closes.

The decision turns on a single jurisdictional question: whether courts may review the move at all. The majority said no.

About 55% said no, rejecting a Swiss People's Party plan to hold the population below 10 million and end EU free movement if it crossed the line.

A Small Business Administration policy notice that took effect March 1 bars lawful permanent residents from its 7(a) and 504 loan programs. The fallout is now reaching borrowers.

Swiss voters decide on a far-right proposal to cap the population at 10 million — a measure with no precedent anywhere, and one that could force the country out of its EU free-movement deal.