The Trump administration on Friday formally proposed a regulation that would dramatically restrict work permits for asylum-seekers.

Asylum applicants may be forced to wait 18 months to apply to work legally in the U.S. under the new rule.

DHS proposes new rules to restrict work permits for asylum seekers, aiming to curb fraudulent claims and reduce the 1.4M application backlog.

The Department of Homeland Security proposed a new rule this week that would force asylum seekers to wait one year before applying for a work permit for the first time. The department said requests ...

The proposed rule seeks to reduce incentives for migrants to file asylum applications to gain legal work authorization.

The new DHS proposal would pause processing of work permits for all new asylum applicants until average processing times for certain asylum applications reach 180 days or lower.

A government agency says that, under the plan, new work permit applications for asylum seekers 'would be paused for an ...

The Trump administration has proposed halting work permits from being issued until a backlog of over 1.4 million asylum ...

Under the draft rule, work permits, officially known as Employment Authorization Documents, would be withheld until average asylum processing times fall below 180 days.

In a proposed regulation released on Friday, the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) outlined plans to suspend the issuance of employment authorisation documents for new asylum seekers until the ...

Michael Gagné looks over an order at his pastry company in Bath in July 2024. Gagné said about 70% of his 50 employees are asylum seekers and other immigrants. (Brianna Soukup/Staff Photographer) ...

Under the new framework, asylum seekers would be unable to obtain work permits until specific processing benchmarks are met.