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Illinois Department of Public Health Director Dr. Ngozi Ezike confirmed Thursday that residents’ personal information, including immigration status, will be protected when officials begin rolling out the coronavirus vaccine.

Dec. 10: IDPH Director Dr. Ngozi Ezike asks residents to avoid holiday and end-of-year gatherings.

A federal judge in Chicago had joined three others nationwide in temporarily blocking President Donald Trump’s policy to deny green cards to many immigrants who use Medicaid, food stamps and other government benefits.

The Trump administration reversed its decision Thursday to stop considering requests from immigrants seeking to defer deportation for medical treatment and other hardships, following weeks of public outcry and a congressional inquiry into the decision. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services confirmed Thursday it will resume considering “deferred action” requests on a discretionary, case-by-case basis, as it had done for...

President Donald Trump skirted the law when he appointed Kenneth T. Cuccinelli II as one of his administration’s top immigration officials, and certain actions by Cuccinelli’s office should have no force or effect, according to a lawsuit. The complaint was submitted to the U.S. district court for Washington, D.C. Friday by the Democracy Forward Foundation, Proskauer Rose LLP, Catholic Legal...

For years the Frida Kahlo Community Organization has served as a pillar in the Pilsen community, promoting leadership, health, immigration services and education. As dancers from the organization prepare to take the stage at this weekend’s Fiesta del Sol, they tell NBC 5’s Sabrina Santucci how performing reflects their heritage and promotes self-confidence.

The director of the agency overseeing legal entry into the United States, including through green cards and asylum, was asked to resign from the agency on Friday, according to a letter sent out to the agency and obtained by NBC News. L. Francis Cissna has served as President Donald Trump’s only director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, an agency...

A nurse who was deported to Mexico has won her improbable fight to return to her four children and job in California after winning a ticket in a visa lottery.

Little Ruya Kadir had sparkling eyes, a few basic belongings and not much else when she arrived in Boise, Idaho more than two years ago. But at just six months old, she had the most important thing: A mother who loved her so fiercely that she left behind her homeland, her husband and everything she knew so Ruya would grow...

Jose Ivan Nunez Martinez and his husband, Paul Frame, thought they were walking into a routine green card interview in January. Instead, the 37-year-old Martinez, who was born in Michoacan, Mexico, was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced Monday that thousands of Permanent Resident cards will be recalled because of a production error. The federal immigration agency said in a news release approximately 8,543 Green Cards will need to be returned because they were printed with an incorrect “Resident Since” date.

Citizenship and Immigration Services says it’s resumed accepting requests to renew a grant of deferred action under the Obama-era program that shields from deportation young immigrants brought to the U.S. as children and who remain in the country illegally. The decision comes four days after a federal judge, in a nod to pending lawsuits, temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s decision...

Southern California resident Jovita Mendez doesn’t speak English. She can’t read or write, in any language. But she longed for a better future for herself and, this week, she achieved that by finally becoming a U.S. citizen.

A Trump administration policy change could make the renewal process for H-1B visas more time consuming and complicated.