On January 20, 2017, President Trump's Chief of Staff Reince Priebus sent a memorandum to the heads of all executive departments and agencies directing them to "freeze" all pending regulatory actions and agency policy documents.

The partially reinstated 90-day travel ban will be instituted on Thursday, June 29, at 8:00 PM, EDT. A Department of State cable provides detailed instructions to consular officers on the implementation. This follows a June 26, 2017 U.S. Supreme Court decision that partially granted the government's

General Frequently Asked Questions about resources that can assist you in understanding and responding to recent and future changes to immigration benefits.

Here is the general order of the rulemaking process under the Administrative Procedure Act (APA). There can be variations, but this is the general process.

This NAFSA note is to clarify that this 180-day-in-advance EAD renewal filing policy does not apply to filing OPT applications of any type.

On January 27, 2017, President Trump signed Executive Order 13769, entitled Protecting the Nation from Terrorist Entry into the United States by Foreign Nationals.

Considering the indefinite entry bar that could be established under Section 3(e) of Executive Order 13769.

Executive actions, also called presidential actions, are actions that are taken by the President. They are usually made using the following vehicles: Executive Orders, Presidential Proclamations, and Presidential Memoranda.

A series of USCIS actions established 8 CFR 274a.13(d), which provides for automatic extensions of certain EADs while a timely-filed application to renew that EAD was pending with USCIS. However, only a few of the categories eligible for this automatic EAD extension are encountered frequently in the