On September 14, 2026, a Massachusetts federal district court temporarily blocked a Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”) regulation scheduled to take effect on September 15, 2026. The regulation would have ended the longstanding “Duration of Status” (“D/S”) system for international students, exchange visitors foreign media representatives, and their qualifying dependents. In Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration, et al. v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security, et al. , the Court postponed the effective date of the rule and prohibited DHS and United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”) from implementing it while the litigation continues. As a result, the existing D/S framework remains in place. The Court has not, however, vacated the rule or issued a final decision on the merits of the case.
Read moreCato Institute: “An Explanation of the Public Charge Rule.”
Last week, the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) finalized a regulation that bans so-called “public charges” from obtaining legal status in the United States. The finalized public charge rule, the Cato Institute argues, redefines the “historic meaning” of the term “public charge,” which will likely result in the denial of immigrant and nonimmigrant applications based on “a bureaucrat’s suspicions that they could use welfare.”
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