The Department of State has removed the section regarding transgender marriage validity for immigrant visa purposes from the FAM (formerly under 9 FAM 102.8-1(H)). fam.state.gov/fam/09FAM/09...

We're heading into areas where there may be unprecedented immigration crackdowns. I think it may be possible that the new administration may seek to use laws that have not really been used before. Two such laws are INA 264(e) and INA 237(a)(3)(A).

NEW from @haleaziz.bsky.social: the Trump administration just suspended ALL humanitarian parole programs, including one dating back to the Bush administration.

Presuming this also applies to re-parole renewing it every two years, you could see Ukrainians start to lose parole status within weeks.

The webpage for USCIS on public charge has been revised or updated today. One of the most frustrating parts of the Trump administration was form I-944. I'm concerned for updates that negatively impact immigrants soon.

www.uscis.gov/green-card/g...

Internal memo Homeland Security employees received today instructing them to send evidence of hidden DEI programs to “DEIAtruth@opm.gov”

Prediction: I-485 applicants will be required to attend in-person interviews from now on and the public charge rule will be amped up. Some form of the I-944 will come back.

USCIS has waived the COVID-19 vaccine requirement for all I-485 applicants.

www.uscis.gov/i-485

A DOS proposed change to the J visa skills list will become effective on 12/09/2024 and will remove many countries from the current skills list (China, India, Brazil, and more included).

This massive change is also retroactive to the 2009 skills list. This is a massive development for many.

Every teacher in America going to school with a target on their back:
*price of doing business, shoulda got a real job*

ONE CEO gets shot:

I heard this is a good place to talk about taxing the rich, breaking up big tech, and ending Washington corruption.

Lots of stories about how mass deportations will spike food prices and cause inflation. But as Tom Bonier noted, only one published before Election Day...

There's a reason democracies don't let people who tried coups back into power.

Israeli prime minister account says The Hague won’t stop them

New at FOREVER WARS: I read the entire South Africa genocide case against Israel. Contrary to what the US and Israeli governments have said about it, it isn’t a frivolous or malicious document. It’s a deeply serious one that the entire world has to reckon with.

these guys are basically old-timey racists. "black people are only qualified for menial labor and if you see them in any other position they do not belong."