The Trump administration on Friday formally proposed a regulation that would dramatically restrict work permits for asylum-seekers.

Asylum applicants may be forced to wait 18 months to apply to work legally in the U.S. under the new rule.

A government agency says that, under the plan, new work permit applications for asylum seekers 'would be paused for an ...

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) on Tuesday announced a new measure that drastically reduces the waiting period for refugees to receive work authorization in the United States, ...

NEW ORLEANS — Vilma Palacios has been held at the Basile, Louisiana detention center since June, even though she says she was in the process of renewing her work permit. “I told him 'why am I under ...

EAST MOLINE, Ill. — On the second day of the federal government shutdown, Akwaaba QC is helping dozens of asylum seekers take the next step in their lives — applying for work permits to become legal ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul says there are 32,000 jobs ready and waiting for the immigrants who have flooded New York in recent months — but an apparent bottleneck in the federal work permit approval process ...