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In U.S. Immigration law effects of certain grounds to deportability and inadmissibility can be waived, [1] under the discretion of the USCIS adjudicator or immigration court. Several waivers are available by the statute of immigration codes while some other require showing "extreme hardship" potentially caused to a qualifying family member (the ...
The applicant must establish that their U.S. citizen or legal permanent resident spouse, parent, or the K visa petitioner would suffer extreme hardship if the application were denied. [4] There are special instructions for TPS and VAWA self-petitioners applying for a waiver of this ground of inadmissibility. [4]
The terms "exceptional and extremely unusual hardship" and "extreme hardship" are not synonymous but obviously different from each other. [1] Under the INA, effects of certain grounds to deportability can be waived by immigration officers under the U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security or by immigration judges under the U.S. Attorney General.
The State Department warns that "severe hardship" could result to individuals making themselves stateless, that even those with permanent residence in their country "could encounter difficulties continuing to reside there without a nationality", and that a foreign country might deport stateless ex-U.S. citizens back to the United States.
The Trump administration has moved with lightning speed to roll out the president’s immigration agenda, effectively closing off the US southern border to asylum seekers, severely limiting who ...
Migrants allowed into the U.S. temporarily under certain Biden administration programs can be quickly expelled, according to a memo sent by the Trump administration's acting secretary of homeland ...
Local law enforcement is not allowed to enforce immigration law—that authority is vested in the federal government as immigration enforcement is a civil matter. [ 53 ] [ 54 ] State local law enforcement officials, such as sheriffs' agencies and municipal law enforcement , are only allowed to enforce criminal matters .
In Colombia and Haiti, U.S. funding supports farming and fishing and provides incentives for people to stay rather than migrate to the U.S.