Health Insurance Test for Green-Card Applicants Could Sharply Cut Future U.S....
A new Trump administration action requiring intending immigrants to prove they can purchase eligible health insurance within 30 days of arrival has the potential to block fully 65 percent of those who...
View ArticleUSCIS Fee Increase Proposed Rule Could Represent the Latest Step in Reshaping...
While much attention has been given to the move by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to raise its application fees—including an 83 percent hike to apply for U.S. citizenship—the policy changes...
View ArticleBrexit Day—Is This the Dawning of the Age of Immobility?
Brexit Day, on January 31, 2020, marks a dramatic turn for the United Kingdom as it leaves the European Union, in significant measure because it wants to control its immigration destiny. But it remains...
View ArticleThe Future of Refugee Resettlement: Made in Europe?
Europe's refugee resettlement capacity has grown dramatically, with resettlement places more than doubling since 2014, even as European countries have become an emerging center for innovation. As...
View ArticleCoronavirus Is Spreading across Borders, But It Is Not a Migration Problem
As public-health officials race to keep the coronavirus from becoming a full-blown global pandemic, governments around the world have been dipping into the migration management toolbox to demonstrate...
View ArticleThe Public-Charge Rule: Broad Impacts, But Few Will Be Denied Green Cards...
While the Trump administration public-charge rule is likely to vastly reshape legal immigration based on its test to assess if a person might ever use public benefits in the future, the universe of...
View ArticleA Race Against the Clock: Meeting Seasonal Labor Needs in the Age of COVID-19
As governments have reacted to the coronavirus pandemic by closing borders, seasonal workers have been kept out, raising a pressing question: who is going to produce the food amid agricultural labor...
View ArticleAs U.S. Health-Care System Buckles under Pandemic, Immigrant & Refugee...
In a time of critical shortages of U.S. health-care workers during the COVID-19 pandemic, retired doctors are being called back to work and medical students are graduating on a fast track. There is...
View ArticleThe COVID-19 Pandemic Suggests the Lessons Learned by European Asylum...
As European asylum systems are tested again by the COVID-19 pandemic, which has injected the need for social distancing during processing and in reception centers, it appears lessons learned during the...
View ArticleAs COVID-19 Slows Human Mobility, Can the Global Compact for Migration Meet...
The coronavirus pandemic dramatically reshaped how human mobility is managed just as the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly, and Regular Migration was beginning to move from paper to implementation. As...
View ArticleThe Rocky Road to a Mobile World after COVID-19
COVID-19 has chilled many forms of human movement, from travel to temporary and permanent migration, refugee resettlement, and returns, among them. While a safe restart of travel is a precondition for...
View ArticleCOVID-19 Spotlights the Inequities Facing English Learner Students, as...
The transition to remote learning for school districts across the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic has been a challenge for most families, but especially those with English Learner (EL) and...
View ArticleUSCIS Budget Implosion Owes to Far More than the Pandemic
Citing coronavirus-related disruptions, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services urged Congress to provide $1.2 billion to address its severe budget shortfall. Without this emergency infusion, the...
View ArticleMillions of U.S. Citizens Could Be Excluded under Trump Plan to Remove...
The Trump administration's plan to exclude unauthorized immigrants from the 2020 Census data used to reapportion 435 congressional seats among the 50 states could misclassify as many as 20 million U.S....
View ArticleWhen Emergency Measures Become the Norm: Post-Coronavirus Prospects for the...
Most EU Member States closed their borders to travel from neighboring countries in the early stages of the coronavirus pandemic. While internal borders in the Schengen zone largely reopened in time for...
View ArticleGreece’s Moria Tragedy: The Crash Test for the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum
The fires that devastated the Moria refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos have further raised the stakes for the soon-to-be unveiled EU Pact on Migration and Asylum. If Moria persists as a...
View ArticleThe EU Pact on Migration and Asylum—A Bold Move to Avoid the Abyss?
The EU Pact on Migration and Asylum represents a last-gasp effort by European leaders to devise a plan that keeps all 27 countries at the table, at a time when growing numbers are refusing to accept...
View ArticleBroad and Blunt, the Trump Administration’s H-1B Changes Miss the Opportunity...
The Trump administration's changes to the H-1B visa program are the most significant in three decades, promising to end the practice of replacing U.S. workers with highly skilled immigrants. While the...
View ArticleThe Role of Immigrant Health-Care Professionals in the United States during...
With the U.S. health-care system buckling under the resurgent COVID-19 outbreak, policymakers could undertake efforts to enable skilled, underemployed international health-care professionals to...
View ArticleHow the Fear of Immigration Enforcement Affects the Mental Health of Latino...
The prevalence of mental-health symptoms among Latino high school students, immigrant and U.S. born alike, is closely related to their fears of immigration enforcement. And the situation may have...
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