Immigration Application Denial Rates Jump 37% Under Trump

New data from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the agency that adjudicates immigration applications, show that denials have jumped significantly. The data for the first nine months of Fiscal Year (FY) 2018, which started in October 2017, show that denials for all manner of immigration benefits —travel documents, work permits, green cards, worker petitions, etc.—increased 37 percent since FY 2016.As Figure 1 shows, the denial rate increased from 8.3 percent to 11.3 percent from FY 2016 to FY 2018. These statistics exclude citizenship applications and include all other immigration forms except for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals and Temporary Protective Status programs, because they provide status to illegal immigrants, and President Trump has tried tocancel them almost completely. But the trends are similar regardless.Figure 1: Denial Rate for Immigration Applications!function(e,t,n,s){var i= " InfogramEmbeds " ,o=e.getElementsByTagName(t)[0],d=/^http:/.test(e.location)? " http: " : " https: " ;if(/^\/{2}/.test(s)&&(s=d+s),window[i]&&window[i].initialized)window[i].process&&window[i].process();else if(!e.getElementById(n)){var a=e.createElement(t);a.async=1,a.id=n,a.src=s,o.parentNode.insertBefore(a,o)}}(document, " script " , " infogram-async " , " https://e.infogram.com/js/dist/embed-loader-min.js " );Figure 2 details the number of denied applications by year, with the FY 2018 projection based on the first nine months of the year. On an...
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