NEW ORLEANS — Vilma Palacios has been held at the Basile, Louisiana detention center since June, even though she says she was in the process of renewing her work permit. “I told him 'why am I under ...

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) on Tuesday announced a new measure that drastically reduces the waiting period for refugees to receive work authorization in the United States, ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul says there are 32,000 jobs ready and waiting for the immigrants who have flooded New York in recent months — but an apparent bottleneck in the federal work permit approval process ...

In the dictionary of government service, there is perhaps no word more destructive to progress than “indefinitely.” When a system stalls or when a processing unit ceases to function without a clear ...