USCIS provides free interpreters to US asylum seekers: program extended for another six months

The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has announced an expansion of the Temporary Final Rule (TFR) that requires the use of an agency interpreter for some asylum interviews. This is stated in a USCIS press release. This rule extends the requirement until September 12, 2023. After…

Bill submitted to Congress to make life easier for asylum seekers

Maine Rep. Chelly Pingree re-introduced legislation that would allow asylum seekers to obtain work permits faster. A similar bill was not passed last session, but Pingree hopes things will be different this time around. Read more…

You can now apply for asylum in the US through the CBP One app: how it works

In 2020, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) introduced the CBP One mobile app. Thus, border guards wanted to avoid long checks, similar to the work of the Global Entry and TSA PreCheck applications. Now CBP One has a new role - to accept...

Vouching for a refugee: what are the responsibilities and risks of those who are ready to vouch for new immigrants

Against the backdrop of the ongoing war with Ukraine and the mobilization announced in Russia at the end of September, the flow of political refugees from Russia and Belarus to the United States has increased significantly. Many of them, unable to obtain an American visa, apply for asylum in the southern ...

Bunker in case of doomsday: American rich are stocking up on apocalyptic housing

JC Cole, developer of Safe Haven Farms, has established maximum security complexes to survive the next pandemic or climate change disaster, according to NewYorkPost. Those who can afford to join him will also have a chance of survival, as he promises.…

Families and children are helped, but single refugees in the US are often left without money, food and clothing after crossing the border

With his Venezuelan ID, newly donated shoes and clean clothes, Adri Fernandez is trying to single-handedly pursue his American dream, according to Yahoo. Unlike families and unaccompanied children who have been the main groups migrating to the US in the past decade,…

Long, difficult and expensive: difficulties and pitfalls of political emigration to the USA

Since the adoption of the official program for the admission of Ukrainian refugees to the United States Uniting for Ukraine, the number of Ukrainians trying to cross the southern border of the United States in search of protection has dropped dramatically. Now people fleeing the war can fly to America directly from Europe. What…

In the United States, they reduced the cost and simplified the procedure for obtaining asylum

The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has removed the requirement to provide biometric data when filing Form I-765 Application for Work Permit for asylum seekers. This is stated on the USCIS website. The fee for the services of receiving biometric data will also not be charged when ...

Better death than life in the USSR: 43 years ago, a waitress escaped from a Soviet cruise ship and sailed for 40 minutes to Australia

In January 1979, USSR citizen Liliana Gasinskaya, being a waitress on the Soviet cruise ship Leonid Sobinov, while the ship was parked in the port of Sydney in only a red bikini, crawled through the porthole, jumped into the water and swam for 40 minutes to the Australian coast,...

The decision to grant asylum in the United States was transferred under the jurisdiction of USCIS: this will speed up the procedure, but reduce the chances of some asylum seekers

The Biden administration announced on March 24 that it had finalized rules that would change the asylum process along the southern border, CBS reported. Although federal officials have said the plan will initially be implemented on a small scale starting in late spring. The long-awaited rule will accelerate the government's ability to…

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