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A federal court in Washington, DC dismissed a Stanford PhD student's lawsuit in November 2026 after his F-1 student visa sat in "administrative processing" for nearly six months with no answer. The court ruled it had no power to force the State Department to act — and the decision follows a pattern that affects thousands of international students and visa applicants across the US.

New York's Appellate Division struck down Nassau County's ban on transgender women in female sports leagues in November 2026, ruling the law violated state civil rights protections. The court found that New York's Human Rights Law — which also shields immigrants from discrimination based on citizenship status — overrides local rules that conflict with it. The decision confirms that local governments in New York cannot strip state civil rights protections from any group, including immigrants and transgender people.

Federal immigration officials killed two US citizens — nurse Alex Pretti and writer Renee Nicole Good — during a mass enforcement operation in Minneapolis in January 2026. On Election Day, Minnesota voters left "I Voted" stickers at their memorial sites, making the deaths a visible symbol in the state's midterm races. The killings have reshaped how communities across Minnesota think about deportation enforcement and who bears its cost.

You came to New York from thousands of miles away, and every autumn you wonder if this city will ever feel like home. For Bengali Hindu immigrants across the five boroughs and New Jersey, Durga Puja — a ten-day festival honoring the goddess Durga — answered that question again in 2026, filling Queens temples and lighting up Times Square with prayer, dance, and shared meals.

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You are in ICE detention, and your health is getting worse. For Fran Gregory Portillo-Zapata, a 53-year-old Venezuelan man held at the Karnes County Immigration Processing Center in Texas, that situation turned fatal. He died on Oct. 29, 2026, at North Central Baptist Hospital in San Antonio — one month after being admitted — raising urgent questions about medical care inside immigration detention.

Hundreds of thousands of TPS holders got a critical legal reprieve in November 2026. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals denied the federal government's request to pause a court order that had been blocking deportations of people with Temporary Protected Status — meaning that protection stayed in place even after the Supreme Court's own temporary stay expired on November 6, 2026. The case, National TPS Alliance v. Mullin, is still ongoing.

Federal officers sent letters to election officials in California and Washington in late October 2026, demanding that ballots from suspected noncitizens be set aside. A San Francisco district court blocked those demands on October 30, 2026. After a rapid back-and-forth, the full Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated that block on November 3, 2026 — a ruling that directly affects immigrants and naturalized citizens who voted in the 2026 federal election.

What if federal agents are now running a coordinated sweep right at the border crossing you use? That is exactly what is happening in Laredo, Texas. Since October 19, 2026, a multi-agency operation called Southern Surge has made 89 arrests and seized drugs, weapons, and cash — and its reach extends beyond smugglers to anyone crossing the southwest border.

USCIS status revoked? Learn what triggers revocation, how to appeal, and how to restore your immigration status. Expert guidance inside.

Can a criminal charge get your green card revoked? Learn which crimes trigger deportation, your rights, and the key steps to protect your status.

Can you reenter the US after multiple deportations? Learn your legal options, waivers, and steps to take. Expert immigration guidance explained.

What if an immigration judge held you to a higher standard of proof than the law actually requires — and denied your green card because of it? That is exactly what happened to Sintia Dines Nivar Santana, a Dominican national whose adjustment-of-status case reached the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. In November 2026, the court ruled that green card applicants in removal proceedings must prove admissibility by a preponderance of the evidence — a lower, fairer bar — not the stricter "clearly and beyond doubt" standard immigration judges had been applying.

You are a double amputee locked in a federal supermax prison, and for nine months you have no prosthetics, your food arrives sealed in plastic you cannot open, and your toenails grow infected while staff refuse to cut them. That was Mostafa Kamel Mostafa's reality at ADX Florence — and in November 2026, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against him, closing his constitutional medical-neglect claims under federal law.

Imagine your personal information — name, address, citizenship status — sitting in a government database built without clear legal authority. In November 2026, a federal judge in Washington, D.C. refused to let the Department of Justice keep that database running while it appeals, after finding the agency's voter data collection policy unlawful. The ruling affects millions of Americans and raises direct questions for immigrants whose information may be tied to state voter rolls.

You're on trial, and the main witness against you has a criminal record and is on probation — but the judge won't let your lawyer ask about it. That's exactly what happened to Demitri Duhart in Howard County, Maryland. In November 2026, Maryland's Appellate Court ruled that the trial court acted within the law, and Duhart's constitutional right to confront witnesses was not violated.

A federal judge blocked the DOJ from forcing California counties to segregate mail-in ballots in November 2026, after an expert analysis confirmed that at least 22 naturalized U.S. citizens — and potentially thousands more — were wrongly placed on the government's list of suspected non-citizen voters. The ruling found the Executive Branch likely violated the Constitution by trying to override state election rules. For naturalized citizens in California, the decision means their ballots cannot legally be withheld based on the flawed federal lists.

Missed your immigration court hearing? Learn what happens, how an in absentia removal order works, and the exact steps to fight back and reopen your case.