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We've been heartened by the good response to Immigration Daybook. The best way you can support us right now is to share this newsletter with people you think will benefit from it. Produced in part with AI, all mistakes are my own. —David As TPS ends, consequences ripple across multiple communities
Losing Temporary Protected Status is already changing daily life for Haitians. People are being called to ICE check-ins, fitted with ankle monitors or detained; expired work permits have forced people from their jobs and led others to stay home out of fear. CNN
Immigrants from South Sudan and Myanmar — also known as Burma — have seen TPS lapse as well after federal judges in Boston and Chicago cleared the way to end TPS for them, effective August 7. The rulings end protection and work authorization for roughly 4,000 people from Myanmar and just over 230 from South Sudan. The Hill, Al Jazeera, AsAmNews
Zomi Press, an outlet serving the Zomi diaspora from Myanmar, has a careful explainer: TPS-based work permits are invalid as of the termination date, but technically, losing TPS does not by itself make someone deportable. Zomi Press
For Venezuelans, most TPS protection has already quietly lapsed — October 2 covers only a narrow remaining slice of holders. In Doral, Florida, lawyers and TPS holders are scrambling to sort out who the date still protects and what options remain. Latin Times
Somalia's TPS now hangs on a pending lower-court case — one of the last still standing. Haiti, Syria, Yemen, Myanmar and South Sudan have all fallen within six weeks of a single Supreme Court decision. Newsweek
Some 170,000 Salvadorans are approaching a September TPS expiration without clear official guidance — with an estimated 150,000 children affected. In The New Yorker, Dara Lind puts the countdown inside what she calls the great delegalization: more than a million people watching the legal footholds that let them build lives in the United States get swept away. Infobae, The New Yorker
Employers are pressing for replacement protections as Haitian workers lose authorization. Health care and hospitality workplaces are absorbing sudden staffing losses; separately, 540-day automatic EAD extensions ended for certain TPS holders after August 5, and a federal court upheld a one-year cap on TPS work permits. Miami Herald UpcomingNext four weeks
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DHS wants to raise the cost of applying for US citizenship (Form N-400) from $760 to $1,330 on paper, and $710 to $1,280 online, with the appeal of a denial (Form N-336) going from $830 to $1,475. Reduced fees and fee waivers for naturalisation would end. Anyone can comment for 60 days once the proposed rule is published.
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Adults who want to take custody of an immigrant child who arrived without a parent or guardian would have to show more documents — proof of identity, proof of income, and information for background checks — before the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) releases the child to them. Comments on the proposed rule are open until August 25, 2026.
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The comment deadline closes on the DHS rule requiring foreign nationals in the US to register with the government and give fingerprints (Form G-325R). DHS is asking whether more immigration filings should count as registration on their own, and whether to change biometrics rules for some travelers; further rulemaking may follow.
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DHS is expected to publish a proposed rule on getting a green card by investing in a US business (EB-5). It would change how Regional Centers — entities approved to pool investor money into projects — are designated and terminated, how long money must stay invested, USCIS audit powers, protections for good-faith investors, and automatic revocation of petitions.
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Employers using the extra H-2B visas Congress allows for seasonal, non-farm jobs must file a sworn statement (attestation) that they meet the added conditions. The Labor Department is asking the White House budget office (OMB) to renew that collection — the requirement itself is not changing — and comments are open until August 31, 2026.
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Starting September 9, the heaviest users of H-1B and L-1 visas owe a federal fee on every extension petition, not just when they hire someone new or take on another company's worker. The fee — $4,000 per H-1B petition, $4,500 per L-1 — applies to companies with 50 or more U.S. employees when more than half of them are on H-1B or L-1 visas. DHS says its old reading of a 2015 law wrongly let same-employer extensions skip the fee; this rule closes that gap through September 2027.
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Missing something, or spotted an error? Reply to this email — corrections run at the foot of the next issue. USCIS gains broader authority to move immigration filings online
The new framework allows U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to designate eligible forms for mandatory electronic filing. Applicants will need to follow later agency notices to learn whether a specific request for an immigration benefit must be filed online. USCIS, Federal Register, La Nación
The framework does not make every eligible form online-only at once. Separate implementation steps will determine when paper filing ends for each form, a distinction that matters when applicants and their representatives prepare submissions. Fragomen
The shift lands on a system already processing enormous volumes with significant backlogs. In the first half of fiscal year 2026, USCIS received 383,000 naturalization applications (N-400) with 649,000 pending; 230,000 family-based green card applications (I-485) with 580,000 pending; and 83,000 asylum applications (I-589) with 1.4 million pending. Work authorization applications (I-765) topped 1.2 million across all categories with nearly 2 million pending. USCIS Immigration and Citizenship Data Birthright citizenship challenge returns to court
Immigrant-rights groups are asking a federal court to block a renewed executive effort to restrict birthright citizenship. The dispute could determine whether children born in the United States are denied recognition of citizenship because of their parents' immigration circumstances. ACLU, Al Jazeera Around the system
- ICE’s expanded mandatory-detention policy is driving a surge of federal habeas challenges, straining judges and court staff as people contest detention without bond or try to fight removal without lawyers. The American Bazaar
- The State Department has revoked more than 175,000 visas under the Trump administration's immigration crackdown, citing birth tourism, alleged fraud, criminal activity, and some forms of online expression. A U.S. embassy in a North African country revoked more than 100 visas tied to birth tourism; reports from the border describe anxiety among Mexican visa holders whose travel histories may be reviewed for childbirth or earlier medical care in the United States. El País
- New York law requires local law-enforcement agencies to end their remaining 287(g) agreements with ICE and report how they are unwinding delegated immigration-enforcement work; the change does not restrict independent federal enforcement. La Nación
- ICE procurement plans are drawing scrutiny from civil-rights advocates for contact-based electric-shock equipment, facial-identification searches and federal access to commercial data systems, with disputes centered on the use of force and the combination of government and commercial data to locate people. CBS News
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