Join the ILRC’s Policy Director, Sameera Hafiz, and  ILRC Legal Program Director, Alison Kamhi, as we revisit the policy recommendations put forth in our Blueprint for the Biden Administration. What progress has been made in the last year? Where do we go from here? 

 Thank you to all of our donors and supporters who make the Immigration Issues Explored series possible. 

Thanks again for attending the ILRC donor conference call, Blueprint for the Biden Administration: One Year Update. We wanted to follow up in response to a few questions we received during the call for more information

1. 1. Naturalization: During the call, ILRC discussed advocacy with USCIS to increase access to disability waivers for green card holders applying to naturalize. USCIS proposed welcome changes to Form N-648, Medical Certification for Disability Exceptions, to simplify and streamline the process to make it easier for disabled green card holders to obtain citizenship, but these changes have not yet been implemented. Please see the following advocacy letter regarding the proposed revisions (Nov. 2021): https://www.ilrc.org/advocacy-comment-n-648-naturalization-disability.
   2. TPS: ILRC discussed the increased use of temporary protected status (TPS) as protection for vulnerable populations during the Biden Administration. We were pleased to see the announcement on March 16 that Afghanistan has been designated for TPS, which will help protect Afghan nationals in the United States from returning to unsafe conditions in Afghanistan: https://www.uscis.gov/newsroom/news-releases/secretary-mayorkas-designates-afghanistan-for-temporary-protected-status.