The Center for Immigration Studies has released a series of analyses examining a recent USCIS memo emphasizing that adjustment of status - the process allowing certain aliens, either temporary visa holders or unlawfully present, who are eligible for permanent residence to obtain it without leaving the United States - is a discretionary benefit and not a guaranteed alternative to consular processing abroad.

George Fishman, Senior Legal Fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Constitution at a hearing titled “Protecting American Citizenship III: Denaturalization and its Constitutional Limits.”

Interview with the head of America’s largest law enforcement agency

The Center for Immigration Studies invites you to attend an Immigration Newsmaker featuring Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner Rodney Scott on Tuesday, June 9, 2026 at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. The event will be livestreamed.

A new report finds that immigrants (both legal and illegal) who arrived during the period of the border surge are significantly less educated and have lower incomes than immigrants who arrived immediately preceding the surge. 

The decline in education of new immigrants overall primarily reflects the enormous increase in the share of newcomers who are from Latin America, many of whom are less educated and entered illegally. 

Livestreamed interview with the head of the Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration 

The Center for Immigration Studies held an Immigration Newsmaker event featuring Andrew Veprek, Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM). 

What is the State Department’s humanitarian bureau doing on migration policy — and what comes next?