A federal court has overturned immigration policies implemented during President Donald Trump’s tenure that prevented individuals from dozens of nations from receiving final determinations on their asylum requests, work authorization, permanent residency, and naturalization petitions.
U.S. District Judge John McConnell, presiding in Providence, Rhode Island, determined on Friday that the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services had put in place a collection of illegal policies that specifically targeted individuals from 39 nations across Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East.
The invalidated policies had prevented people from countries included in the travel ban from obtaining final rulings on their immigration applications and requests for legal status in the United States.
