DHS/DREAMERS/IMMIGRATION: “Acting Homeland Security Secretary Elaine Duke late Wednesday [11-15-17] ordered the government to accept renewal applications for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program that arrived late due to postal delays — a reversal after the agency had originally rejected those applications.
US Citizenship and Immigration Services issued the new guidance hours before a Thursday court hearing in which immigration advocates were prepared to add the issue to ongoing litigation about the end of DACA, which protected young undocumented immigrants who came to the US as children from deportation and allowed them to work.
The move could affect dozens of applicants who say they mailed their renewal applications weeks ahead of the October 5 deadline, which was offered for any DACA recipient whose status expires before March 5 as a way to delay the end of the program for six months...
In the case of applications that arrived at a mailbox on time but were rejected, the guidance said, USCIS will reach out to those individuals and allow them to resubmit their renewal application.”
-Tal Kopan, “DHS reverses course on some rejected DACA renewals,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, Nov. 16, 2017 01:39pm