On 13 January 2025, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and the UK’s Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI) (collectively, the Participants) published an information-sharing Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), which was signed and took effect on 9 October 2024. The MoU memorializes the strong collaboration between the USA and
On June 4, 2024, President Biden issued a new proclamation and rule leveraging his executive authority to prevent migrants who enter the United States unlawfully from accessing asylum. Citing a need to enhance the United States’ “ability to address the historic levels of migration and more efficiently process migrants arriving at the southern border given
As we reported in August 2023, the temporary increase of 540 days to the automatic extension period for employment authorization and employment authorization documents (EADs) for certain renewal applicants expired Oct. 26, 2023. Currently, certain applicants with a pending Form I-765, Application for Employment Authorization, will qualify for 180-day extensions. The good news is, as