Stimulus checks, jobless aid and PPP small-business loans are part of the $900 billion Covid-19 relief passed by Congress.

California will work to end the use of private prisons within its borders, including for-profit immigrant detention facilities, under a law signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom.

The White House plans to propose merging the Departments of Labor and Education as part of a broader reorganization of the federal government, according to a person with knowledge of the proposal.

The White House personnel office chief has told President Trump that his top two picks to fill the Homeland Security Secretary job aren’t eligible under a federal law dictating who can fill the role...

Two women say they didn’t mind being featured in a video and celebrated their citizenship, but Trump administration critics accuse the president of taking advantage of the new citizens and politici...

The administration is seeking to avoid a new crisis as child shelters near capacity.

A Covid-19 backlog complicates what has already been a yearslong wait for more than a million immigrants in line to become permanent U.S. residents.

The new rules would have made it tougher for foreign workers, particularly new international graduates of U.S. colleges, to qualify for an H-1B visa and significantly more expensive for companies to...

Some judges said they left because they found it impossible to guarantee migrants their due process rights.

The Trump administration plans to add to the number of countries covered under its travel restrictions, including Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country, along with others in Africa and Asia.

The U.S. is set to let as many as 80,000 employment-based green cards expire Friday, putting back into limbo many temporary foreign workers who were on the verge of a permanent resolution to their...

Pandemic-fueled restrictions at federal records centers, located in limestone caves, have kept many citizenship applications from being processed.

A federal district judge blocked the Trump administration from expanding a policy allowing the government to quickly deport illegal immigrants without going through immigration courts.

Senate GOP leaders have set a timeline to vote next week on legislation to repeal large chunks of the Affordable Care Act, even though they don’t yet appear to have secured enough support to pass it.

The Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998 (Vacancies Reform Act) provides for temporarily filling vacant executive agency positions that require...

Guatemala wants U.S. authorities to offer medical guarantees that deported migrants are free from the coronavirus before allowing the resumption of deportee flights from the U.S.

The government is poised to avoid a repeat of 2021 when thousands of green cards went unused; a backlog of more than one million applicants remains.

The federal agency that runs the U.S. legal immigration system said it is delaying plans to furlough 70% of its staff until Aug. 31, giving Congress several more weeks to address its budget shortfall.

The government is considering payments of $450,000 a person affected by the Trump administration’s zero-tolerance policy in 2018 for asylum seekers illegally crossing the border.

Lawmakers in both parties say a comprehensive bill would hit hurdles, but a narrower deal centered on Dreamers might be possible.

Immigration concerns in Saipan, a U.S. birth-tourism destination, are putting new pressures on airlines that fly there to screen their passengers.

Thousands of people who thought they had won legal permanent residence in the U.S. now may lose their chance for green cards because of a pandemic-fueled backlog.

Many spouses of foreigners legally working in the U.S have been forced to stop working because of delays in processing visa renewals and accompanying work permits.

Visa applicants are entered in the H-1B lottery multiple times to boost their chances, federal agency says in notice to employers.

The proposal marked Democrats’ third effort to provide temporary deportation protections and work permits to millions of immigrants living in the U.S. illegally.

Vice President Mike Pence and Sen. Kamala Harris squared off in their first and only debate on coronavirus, the economy, taxes and the environment.

House Republicans’ attempt to bring a border security bill to the floor as early as this week was thwarted after backlash from moderate party members.

President Biden has undone many of his predecessor’s immigration policies, but business groups and immigrant advocates say they worry that a ban imposed last year on most forms of legal immigration...

The Biden administration estimates that between 18,600 to about 22,000 children could cross the U.S. southern border in April. For May, officials are guessing the figure could rise to between 21,800...

The Trump administration has been using a database that maps the movements of millions of cellphones to monitor the Mexican border and make immigration arrests, according to people familiar with the...

A federal court ruled that senior Homeland Security official Ken Cuccinelli served illegally last year in a position overseeing immigration and invalidated a change to asylum policy put in place...

Such a change would help quantify eligibility for reparations should the government agree to pay them.

Immigrant children and families are again heading north to the U.S.-Mexico border after a lull, signaling the possibility of a fresh humanitarian crisis and an early challenge for the incoming Biden...

Green-card waits, especially for Indian families, are so long that their children age out of eligibility to stay in U.S.

U.S. officials are aiming to open travel between New York City and London with shortened traveler quarantine periods as soon as the holidays, as the availability of rapid Covid-19 tests grows.

A move to start offering work permits to foreigners on U.S. H-1B visas seizes on the frustrations of many in the tech industry who are stuck in U.S. immigration limbo.

Punish China by offering the city’s people a home in the U.K. and U.S.

The Biden administration is making available an additional 22,000 seasonal guest-worker visas this year ahead of the summer season, the Department of Homeland Security said.

The court ruled that a federal judge was incorrect to block an administration policy allowing the government to quickly deport unauthorized immigrants without going through immigration courts.

President Trump has used executive powers to remake nearly every facet of the U.S. immigration system. If Joe Biden is elected, he is expected to use many of those same levers to undo Mr. Trump’s...

Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf made an unpublicized visit Wednesday to the site of a privately constructed border wall during his first official trip to the southern border, Yahoo News...

The Trump administration has agreed to rescind rules it issued last week barring international students from being in the U.S. if they were taking classes only online, a rare reversal by the govern...

The U.S. is set to let as many as 80,000 employment-based green cards expire Friday, putting back into limbo many temporary foreign workers who were on the verge of a permanent resolution to their...

The Trump administration is weighing a proposal to suspend a slate of employment-based immigration visas, among several possible measures amid the economic fallout of the pandemic.

Journalists at several media outlets are pressing management to pursue changes on matters such as diversity, news coverage and pay transparency.

Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology sued the Trump administration over its new policy barring international students from coming to or remaining in the U.S. if their classes are...

A federal appeals court allowed the Trump administration to move forward with plans to use billions of dollars in military construction money to build a long-promised wall along the border with...