Compliance Management

Travel Bans and Restrictions

April 16, 2025

Shortlink to this page: www.nafsa.org/travelbans Statutory Bases for Travel Bans and Restrictions A number of long-standing statutory provisions in the Immigration and Naturalization Act (INA) give wide discretion to the President, and sometimes the Secretary of a Federal agency, to suspend or

Executive Order of February 26, 2025: Implementing the President's "Department of Government Efficiency" Cost Efficiency Initiative

March 5, 2025

Executive Order 14222 of February 26, 2025: Implementing the President's "Department of Government Efficiency" Cost Efficiency Initiative Read the executive order on whitehouse.gov Federal Register citation: 90 FR 11095 (March 3, 2025) Stated purpose "This order commences a transformation in Federal

Re-Registration of Nonimmigrants Reaching Age 14

USCIS rules effective April 11, 2025 require young nonimmigrants who turn 14 while in the U.S. to "re-register" with USCIS within 30 days of their birthday, even if previously registered and issued a Form I-94 when they entered the country. This may affect, for example, F-2, J-2, H-4 dependents and

Executive Order 14215 of February 18, 2025: Ensuring Accountability for All Agencies

February 24, 2025

Executive Order 14215 of February 18, 2025: Ensuring Accountability for All Agencies injects the President and the Department of Justice/Attorney General directly into the regulatory and interpretive processes of all agencies. Read: Executive Order on whitehouse.gov Federal Register cite: 90 FR

OFLC Implements 5-Year Record Retention Protocol

February 19, 2025

On February 14, 2025 the Department of Labor (DOL) Office of Foreign Labor Certification (OFLC) posted in the OFLC Announcements page a notice informing stakeholders that on March 20, 2025 it will begin deleting records older than five years from the record's final determination date as recorded in

EEOC Position on National Origin Discrimination Against American Workers

February 19, 2025

Executive summary: In a February 19, 2025 press release U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Acting Chair Andrea Lucas asserted the agency’s commitment to protecting American workers from national origin discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Lucas warned

Regulatory Perspectives: Regulatory Practice and the New Presidential Administration

NAFSA staff members David Fosnocht and Steve Springer discussed student and scholar advising and the new presidential administration with attendees. They discussed vehicles an administration can use to effect change, review interests of the prior Trump administration that may be revived, and

Executive Order: Implementing The President’s DOGE Workforce Optimization Initiative

February 17, 2025

Executive Order of February 11, 2025: Implementing The President’s “Department of Government Efficiency” Workforce Optimization Initiative. On February 11, 2025, President Trump signed an executive order titled Implementing the President's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) Workforce

Executive Order: One Voice for America’s Foreign Relations

February 15, 2025

Executive Order 14211 of February 12, 2025: One Voice for America’s Foreign Relations. Read: Executive Order on whitehouse.gov Federal Register cite: 90 FR 9831 (February 18, 2025) Fact Sheet on the executive order This executive order declares that an "exceptional workforce of patriots" is needed

NIH Caps Indirect Costs in NIH Grants

March 11, 2025

15% Cap on Indirect Costs in NIH Grants. In Notice Number NOT-OD-25-068: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates (February 7, 2025), the National Institutes of Health (NIH) imposed a 15% cap on the "indirect cost" rate for all NIH grants. This policy