Federal Judge Stops USCIS from Applying its Revised Policy on Unlawful Presence for Foreign Students and J Nonimmigrants
On February 6, 2020, the United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina in Guilford College et. al. v. Wolf issued a nationwide permanent injunction regarding the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ (USCIS) August 9, 2018 Policy Memorandum (PM) on the accrual of unlawful presence for nonimmigrant students - specifically F, J and M visa holders. This injunction comes shortly after a divided U.S. Supreme Court lifted a similar injunction on the new Public Charge Rule, as outlined in our previous posts.
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