More work for USCIS means a bigger case backlog, which was already huge before Trump took office and has only gotten worse from there, with 11.6 million pending applications as of September 2025.

The move is only the most recent initiative in the government’s efforts to discourage or prevent foreign nationals from taking jobs that President Donald Trump says he wants to keep open for U.S.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Stuart Anderson writes about immigration, business and globalization. A new immigration rule ending the automatic extension of ...

The Trump administration's move marks a reversal of a Biden-era policy that aimed to protect immigrants awaiting U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) decisions. Under existing rules, EAD ...

San Diego-area Reps. Juan Vargas and Sara Jacobs Tuesday joined 68 of their Democratic congressional colleagues in a letter to President Joe Biden and a pair of federal agencies, urging the ...

Our Labor & Employment and Immigration teams discuss the looming delays in processing H-4 and L-2 dependent status and work permit applications after the Edakunni settlement’s “bundling” provision ...

Three Maine leaders are making a push to extend work authorizations for immigrants and asylum seekers as the federal government works through an extensive backlog in work permit processing. Employment ...

The United States (US) president Donald Trump's administration introduced a new rule ending automatic work extension for foreigners According to the Department of Homeland Security, the new policy ...

The administration has decided to eliminate the automatic extension of timely-filed work authorization applications. This rule will reduce the automatic 540-day work permit extension to 0 days ...

Immigration advocates are warning that hundreds of thousands of immigrants stand to lose their jobs unless the Biden administration issues an extension for expiring work permits. A prior extension ...