October 11, 2019: Federal Judges from the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California have issued injunctions blocking the implementation of the Department of Homeland Security's new public charge regulations.
The regulations, which were scheduled to become effective on October 15, were intended to subject individuals applying for immigrant and nonimmigrant statuses to a much higher level of scrutiny of their personal financial situations. Multiple lawsuits have been filed nationally challenging DHS's authority to broaden the scope of their public charge analysis.