Plain-English guides to how immigration decisions get made, delayed, challenged and enforced. Every point is tied to the statute, rule or court order behind it.
When an application sits undecided: what a court can order, when a delay qualifies, what it costs, and the rules for green cards and naturalization.
Read the guides →Temporary restraining orders, injunctions and vacatur, and how challenges to national policies changed after Trump v. CASA.
Read the guides →An index of immigration executive orders and proclamations since 2025, the travel bans, and the birthright citizenship decision.
Read the guides →Removal orders, the filings that stop them, and habeas corpus for people in immigration detention.
Read the guides →The Administrative Procedure Act, getting your immigration file under FOIA, and what USCIS policy memos can and cannot do.
Read the guides →Labor certification, the H-1B Labor Condition Application, H-2A and H-2B, Form I-9 and workers’ rights.
Read the guide →The order that directs an agency to decide, its three requirements, and what it cannot do.
The 180-day sense of Congress, published processing times and the statutory clocks.
Every principal order and proclamation since January 2025, with citations and court status.
Executive Order 14160, Trump v. Barbara, and the August 2026 follow-up order.
Where to file, the detention statutes, and the 2025–26 split over bond hearings.
Who the 2026 travel ban covers, the exceptions, and what happens to pending visas.
Class actions, vacatur and party-specific relief in place of universal injunctions.
PERM, the LCA, seasonal workers, I-9 inspections and rights that apply regardless of status.
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