Headlines:
Supreme Court docket Upholds Birthright Citizenship – The Supreme Court docket dominated that children born in the US to folks unlawfully or briefly current are robotically residents at beginning beneath the Fourteenth Modification’s Citizenship Clause of the U.S. Structure.
USCIS Extends Work Authorization for Seven TPS Nations Underneath Court docket Order – The steering, which states that work authorization is prolonged to July 10, 2026, for eligible Momentary Protected Standing beneficiaries as outlined in every discover, consists of Burma, Ethiopia, Haiti, Somalia, Syria, South Sudan, and Yemen.
DHS Proposes to Implement EB-5 Reform and Integrity Act – The Division of Homeland Safety revealed a proposed rule that may implement the EB–5 Reform and Integrity Act of 2022.
USCIS Opens Asylum Workplace in Atlanta – The Atlanta Asylum Workplace, which covers Georgia and Alabama, is anticipated to maneuver right into a everlasting location in 2027. Till then, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Providers will use three designated areas for asylum interviews.
Particulars:
Supreme Court docket Upholds Birthright Citizenship
On June 30, 2026, the Supreme Court docket dominated 6-3 in Trump v. Barbara that youngsters born in the US to folks unlawfully or briefly current are “topic to the jurisdiction” of the US and are residents at beginning beneath the Fourteenth Modification’s Citizenship Clause of the U.S. Structure. The bulk thus struck down President Trump’s govt order declaring that such youngsters don’t qualify for citizenship beneath the Fourteenth Modification or the Immigration and Nationality Act.
Chief Justice John Roberts, writing for almost all, famous:
When the principal dissent does grapple with the operative authorized textual content—“topic to the jurisdiction” of the US—it has little to say. It argues solely that an individual is “topic to the jurisdiction of the federal government of his domicile.” … However that’s not the query. The query is whether or not an individual is “topic to the jurisdiction” of the federal government of the nation during which he’s bodily current, even when he’s solely there briefly. He’s (until he falls beneath one of many acquainted exceptions, resembling for ambassadors).
USCIS Extends Work Authorization for Seven TPS Nations Underneath Court docket Order
On July 1, 2026, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Providers (USCIS) posted new steering on termination of Momentary Protected Standing (TPS) and work authorization for sure TPS recipients affected by a courtroom order.
The steering, which states that work authorization is prolonged to July 10, 2026, for eligible TPS beneficiaries as outlined in every discover, consists of Burma, Ethiopia, Haiti, Somalia, Syria, South Sudan, and Yemen.
USCIS stated that when finishing the Expiration Date (if any) fields on Kind I-9, the employer ought to enter “as per courtroom order” in Part 1 and “July 10, 2026” in Part 2, together with a word within the further info field.
DHS Proposes to Implement EB-5 Reform and Integrity Act
On July 2, 2026, the Division of Homeland Safety (DHS) revealed a proposed rule that may implement the EB-5 Reform and Integrity Act of 2022 (RIA), which former President Biden signed on March 15, 2022.
Along with DHS’s common name for feedback, the company is particularly searching for feedback on:
- Audits and a regional middle’s record-keeping necessities;
- The kinds of initiatives that will meet the definition of an infrastructure challenge;
- The excessive unemployment space designation course of, together with essentially the most acceptable information sources to calculate weighted unemployment common of census tracts and the way a regional middle ought to renew the designation of a beforehand designated excessive unemployment space;
- Redeployment of alien investor capital, together with the method a regional middle ought to use to doc its compliance with the statutory necessities; and
- The method for registering direct and third-party promoters of a regional middle, new industrial enterprise, or job-creating entity.
DHS additionally invitations feedback on the financial evaluation supporting the rule and the proposed kind revisions. Written feedback have to be submitted by August 31, 2026.
USCIS Opens Asylum Workplace in Atlanta
On July 1, 2026, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Providers (USCIS) introduced that it’s opening an asylum workplace in Atlanta, Georgia. Starting July 8, 2026, the Atlanta Asylum Workplace will conduct interviews for affirmative asylum candidates at three areas.
These submitting for asylum and those that have already filed for asylum who’re beneath the jurisdiction of the Atlanta Asylum Workplace, which covers Georgia and Alabama, could have their interviews scheduled at one in every of these areas:
- A brand new, non permanent asylum workplace location in Atlanta;
- The USCIS Atlanta Discipline Workplace; or
- The USCIS Montgomery Discipline Workplace in Alabama.
The Atlanta Asylum Workplace is anticipated to maneuver right into a everlasting location in 2027. Till then, USCIS will use the above areas for asylum interviews. The interview discover will embody details about the place to go for the interview.
The announcement consists of mailing and bodily addresses for the interview areas famous above.
