Client Alert!
On October 5, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued a decision on the 2012 Deferred Action for Child Arrivals (DACA) policy. The court partially affirmed the district court’s July 2021 decision declaring the 2012 DACA policy unlawful. However, the court of appeals preserved the partial stay issued by the district court in July 2021 and remanded the case back to the district court for further proceedings regarding the new DHS DACA regulation published on August 30, 2022 and scheduled to go into effect on October 31, 2022.
At this time, this ruling does not affect current grants of DACA and related Employment Authorization Documents. Consistent with the court’s order and the ongoing partial stay, USCIS will continue to accept and process renewal DACA requests, accompanying requests for employment authorization, and applications for advance parole for current DACA recipients, and will continue to accept but not process initial DACA requests.
Click the link to read a statement about the DACA ruling from USCIS Director Ur M. Jaddou.
