NEW FROM ME: with a trio of new regs (two of them not yet final), USCIS wants to make people apply for work permits a bunch more often and make applications take longer to evaluate. Which, gee, it’s not like there’s already a 1.6M-application work permit backlog. documentedny.com/2026/06/12/u...
More work for USCIS means a bigger case backlog, which was already huge before Trump took office and has only gotten worse from there, with 11.6 million pending applications as of September 2025.
