US Immigration News

Four members of the Homeland Security Advisory Council quit in July in protest over President Donald Trump’s, ‘zero tolerance’ US immigration policies. The Trump administration’s tough stance on illegal immigration had resulted in more than 2,000 children being separated from their parents at the US-Mexico border in recent months.

Senator John McCain US immigration reformer, five times elected to the US Senate and Vietnam war hero died on 25 August 2018 of brain cancer.  He had been ill for over a year.

Previously Donald Trump had said at a campaign event in Iowa in June 2015 that Mr McCain was not a war hero.

"He's a war hero because he was captured," Mr Trump said. "I like people that weren't captured."

As previously announced US visa applicants and holders will not be subjected to controversial, high-tech plans to monitor their social media activity and gauge whether they would ‘positively contribute to society’, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has announced. The agency has instead indicated that people not sottware systems will continue to oversee the vetting process.

The United Nations (UN) had previously told US government officials in Washington to bring an end to controversial protocols that separate asylum-seeking children from their parents. The UN’s demands related to children from Central America seeking asylum in the US who are being separated from their parents at the southern border. It seems that the Donald Trump administration has ended this policy.

Ohio Governor, John Kasich, has a history of welcoming immigrants to the Midwestern US state, but now the Republican – in his second-term as Governor – is offering formal state assistance with US visas and jobs. Mr Kasich recently signed an executive order to create the Office of Opportunities for New Americans.

Amid discussions to expand US visa validity for Nigerian nationals from two to 10 years, the US-Nigeria Trade Council has urged Nigeria’s Foreign Affairs Ministry and US government officials to agree a bilateral treaty that would enable Nigerians to take advantage of the US E1 (nonimmigrant treaty trader) and E2 (nonimmigrant treaty investor) visa programs.