USCIS is no longer bound to process work permit applications within 30 days.
These policies have left many of our indigent clients without a way to work for years, leading to severe food and shelter insecurity.
If asylum applicants cannot work, they cannot support themselves and their families or save money and pay for legal assistance, forcing more asylum-applicants to rely on finite “pro bono” services like ours.
This is part of the administration’s persistent, yet largely unseen campaign to make life more difficult and justice less accessible for asylum-seekers through administrative policy changes.