Now Accepting New DACA Applications

On Friday, December 4, 2020, Judge Garaufis of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York issued an order vacating the July 2020 Wolf memorandum and restoring DACA to the terms that were in place in 2012 when the program was first created.

As a result of the court’s order, on December 7, 2020, the government published a notice with the following:

1. The government is now accepting first-time requests for DACA, renewal requests regardless of expiration date.
2. Advance parole requests, based on the terms of the DACA program prior to September 5, 2017, and in accordance with the court’s November 14, 2020, decision. 
3. The government is extending to two years any DACA and employment authorization documents (EADs) issued for one year instead of two years because of the Wolf memorandum and will provide evidence of this extension.