Federal Judge Rejects USCIS Pause on Immigration Applications
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services building outside outside of Denver, Colo. on July 14, 2019. Chet Strange/AFP via Getty Images 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”