On July 27, 2026, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced an important change to the affirmative asylum process. Under a newly issued interim final rule, USCIS may refer certain asylum applications directly to an immigration judge without first conducting an asylum interview. The rule took effect immediately.

This past weekend, the Eclipse Partners LLC team had the pleasure of participating in Naadam festivities in Arlington, Virginia. We are deeply grateful to the Mongolian Business Council of East Coast and the Mongolian Community Association in the Washington, D.C. area for organizing such a vibrant celebration of Mongolian culture, heritage, and community, and for inviting us to be a part of this special event.

We would like to inform our clients and community of a temporary technical issue that affected one of our firm's email accounts.

Our info@eclipselaw.org email address experienced a service disruption and was unable to receive incoming emails from approximately 9:00 a.m. on July 6 until 11:00 a.m. on July 7. We have identified the cause of the issue, and it has now been fully resolved.

If you attempted to contact our office using info@eclipselaw.org during this time, there is a possibility that we did not receive your message. To ensure that we have your inquiry and can respond promptly, we kindly ask that you re-send your email at your earliest convenience.

Recent reports indicate that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has significantly increased immigration enforcement efforts nationwide. According to information reported by multiple national news outlets, ICE arrested approximately 10,000 individuals over a five-day period at the end of June—an average of roughly 2,000 arrests per day, representing a substantial increase over previous months.

On June 25, the Supreme Court issued a ruling affecting TPS status for Haitians and Syrians. The Court held that postponement of DHS’s termination of status would not be subject to judicial review except under constitutional considerations. In this particular case, those considerations were not sufficiently strong to warrant judicial review.