Last Updated: February 5, 2025 

On this page, ISSO shares immigration updates that may impact the international community at Iowa State.  Below you will be able to click the plus sign to learn more information about each executive order or agency action, link directly to the U.S. governmental website, see the current status, and review information pulled from each update.   

As always, it is important to maintain your legal non-immigrant status in the United States, and please be certain to pay extra attention to communications from ISSO.  Have questions? Contact us via email (isso@iastate.edu) or phone (515-294-1120). 

  • Executive Order - January 20, 2025
  • Current Status - Active
  • "To protect Americans, the United States must be vigilant during the visa-issuance process to ensure that those aliens approved for admission into the United States do not intend to harm Americans or our national interests.  More importantly, the United States must identify them before their admission or entry into the United States.  And the United States must ensure that admitted aliens and aliens otherwise already present in the United States do not bear hostile attitudes toward its citizens, culture, government, institutions, or founding principles, and do not advocate for, aid, or support designated foreign terrorists and other threats to our national security."

  • Executive Order - January 20, 2025
  • Current Status - Not active, going through U.S. Court System
  • "this section shall apply only to persons who are born within the United States after 30 days from the date of this order."
  • "It is the policy of the United States that no department or agency of the United States government shall issue documents recognizing United States citizenship, or accept documents issued by State, local, or other governments or authorities purporting to recognize United States citizenship, to persons:  (1) when that person’s mother was unlawfully present in the United States and the person’s father was not a United States citizen or lawful permanent resident at the time of said person’s birth, or (2) when that person’s mother’s presence in the United States was lawful but temporary, and the person’s father was not a United States citizen or lawful permanent resident at the time of said person’s birth."

  • Agency Action - January 21, 2025
  • Current Status - Active
  • "The first directive rescinds the Biden Administration’s guidelines for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) enforcement actions that thwart law enforcement in or near so-called “sensitive” areas."
  • "The second directive ends the broad abuse of humanitarian parole and returns the program to a case-by-case basis. ICE and CBP will phase out any parole programs that are not in accordance with the law"
  • Update - January 22, 2025
  • "This guidance does not apply to those aliens arriving with valid Form I-512, or those aliens being processed for Significant Public Benefit Parole in coordination with federal law enforcement partners."

  • Executive Order - January 29th, 2025
  • Fact Sheet - January 30th, 2025
  • "Deport Hamas Sympathizers and Revoke Student Visas: “To all the resident aliens who joined in the pro-jihadist protests, we put you on notice: come 2025, we will find you, and we will deport you. I will also quickly cancel the student visas of all Hamas sympathizers on college campuses, which have been infested with radicalism like never before.”"

  • Federal Registrar - February 5th, 2025
  • Status - Effective April 7th, 2025
  • "The Secretary therefore is terminating the 2023 TPS designation of Venezuela. This termination is effective April 7, 2025. After April 7, 2025, nationals of Venezuela (and aliens having no nationality who last habitually resided in Venezuela) who have been granted TPS under the 2023 Venezuela designation will no longer have TPS. This termination determination does not apply to the 2021 designation of Venezuela for TPS, which remains in effect until September 10, 2025, or to individuals who are registered for TPS under the 2021 designation."

 

If you have questions or concerns, please contact ISSO at isso@iastate.edu or 515-294-1120.