Court Rules Against USCIS Travel Ban Policies

Sat, 06 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

In a significant ruling, Chief Judge John J. McConnell Jr. of the U.S. District Court for Rhode Island declared that USCIS’s policies regarding the so-called “Travel Ban Countries” violated both the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) and the Administrative Procedure Act (APA). The decision, made in the case of Dorcas International Institute of Rhode Island v. USCIS, found that these policies had placed countless immigrants in legal limbo by indefinitely pausing the adjudication of immigration benefit requests for individuals from 39 countries across Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East.

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Court Rules Against USCIS Travel Ban Policies