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Immigration

Nov. 8, 2019

Immigration advocacy groups seek an injunction for new citizenship fee waiver rules

The Department of Homeland Security’s recent changes will substantially reduce the number of eligible applicants, according to a complaint.

Seattle and a host of immigration advocacy organizations are suing to temporarily block the Department of Homeland Security's changes to the fee waiver process for citizenship applications.

Plaintiff groups' risk losing millions of dollars in federal funding as well as a potential threat to "the very existence of at least one [organization's] naturalization program" if the rule is implemented, according to a motion for a prelimina...

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