U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services plans to temporarily stop issuing work permits to asylum seekers — a pause that could last decades, the agency announced on Friday.
The proposed change, which could go into effect later this year, would cut off access to an avenue that allows millions of immigrants to work legally while awaiting a decision on their asylum claims. The proposed rule is another step the Trump administration has taken to leverage USCIS to cut off immigrants from visas, green cards, work permits and other immigration benefits as President Donald Trump pushes to limit legal and unauthorized immigration.
The agency in charge of legal migration pathways wants to stop issuing work permits if the processing time for granting asylum is longer than 180 days. But getting the processing time down to 180 days “may take between 14 and 173 years” depending on how much the rule change reduces asylum applications, the proposed rule states.
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The change would not affect asylum seekers trying to renew their work permits. The Trump administration also shortened the employment authorization period for asylum seekers and other immigrants from five years to 18 months.
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Currently, immigrants applying for asylum aren’t eligible to apply for a work permit until 180 days after USCIS receives their asylum paperwork. Under the proposed rule, they would have to wait a year, and the agency is extending the time it has to process work permit applications from 30 days to 180.
The changes mean that asylum seekers would have to wait up to a year and a half to receive a work permit if USCIS doesn’t pause the process. However, the agency anticipates the rule would result in an “initial and potentially lengthy pause.”
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