Federal Judge Rejects USCIS Pause on Immigration Applications

A federal judge on April 30 rejected key parts of the Trump administration’s policies preventing adjudication of immigration benefit applications, determining that an indefinite “adjudicative hold” and treating nationality as a “significant negative factor” are likely to be found unlawful.

U.S. District Judge Julia E. Kobick in Massachusetts permitted a partial preliminary injunction for approximately two dozen named plaintiffs in the case Akmurat O. Doe et al. v. Donald J. Trump et al.