*DACA Guidance*
USCIS announced guidance on how it will implement Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Chad Wolf’s July 28 memorandum regarding the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy.
In addition to accepting advance parole applications from DACA Recipients (see above), USCIS will implement the following changes to the DACA program as listed in its guidance:
- USCIS will renew DACA for those already in DACA status in one-year increments.
- USCIS will not accept new inital DACA applications.
- USCIS will generally reject renewal requests received more than 150 days before the current grant of DACA expires.
- DACA recipients should file their renewal request between 150 and 120 days before their current grant of DACA expires.
- USCIS will only grant advance parole for travel outside the United States to DACA recipients for urgent humanitarian reasons or significant public benefit in keeping with the governing statute.
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