DACA is not my specialty however I try to be up to date in sharing the latest information regarding that topic.
- To visit USCIS' DACA webpage, click here
- To learn more about DACA (Wikipedia) click here.
- To visit the Immigrant Legal Resource Center's (ILRC) DACA webpage, click here.
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- 09/13/2023: A Federal Judge in the Southern District of Texas issued a decision that DACA to be unlawful. To read more about it (USCIS website), click here.
- To read "Frequently Asked Questions" and read previous legal decisions regarding DACA (USCIS website), click here.
- 09/12/2022: The Immigrant Legal Resource Center (ILRC) shares its interpretation of the DACA Rules and Final Summary from The Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
To read this document (pdf format), click here.
- To read the Federal Register's version of the above document, click here.
- 04/14/2022: Renewing your DACA status can now be done online
To do so, click here.
No initial DACA requests are being granted at this time
- 09/28/2021: To read Axios' article on the latest efforts by the Biden administration to strengthen DACA, click here.
- 07/19/2021: To read acting Director Tracy Renaud's Statement regarding the latest DACA ruling, click here.
- 07/17/2021: To read DHS Secretary Mayorkas statement regarding the latest DACA
ruling, click here.
- 07/17/2021: To read CBS News' article about the latest DACA ruling, click here.
- 03/18/2021: California's 40th District Representative Lucille Roybal-Allard introduced H.R. 6 titled "American Dream Act of 2021" to the House of Representatives which passed it. Now it goes to the Senate. To read H.R. 6, click here.
- 02/24/2021: Illinois Senator Dick Durbin proposed to the Senate s.264 titled "Dream Act of 2021". It has to follow the path of a bill and go through committee before going through the House or Senate as whole. To read s.264, click here.
- 01/20/2021: President Joe Biden proposed the US Citizenship Act of 2021, to read the White House's fact sheet related to this act, click here.
That same day, President Biden wrote a "Memo" titled, "Preserving and Fortifying Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)". To read that memorandum, click here.
- 12/23/2020: The Immigrant Legal Resource Center (ILRC) published a guide for those who are thinking of applying for DACA for the first time. To read this six page guide (pdf format), click here.
- 12/04/2020: Judge Nicholas George Garaufis, of the US District Court of the Eastern District of New York reinstates DACA. To read more about that opinion from the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), click here.
