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.
The order calls for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to swiftly remove the adjudicative hold on its pending applications and cease applying the nationality-based negative factor to adjustment of status and work authorization cases….