New Senior Advisor for Refugee and Asylum Policy

Igor V. Timofeyev is the new senior advisor for refugee and asylum policy. The is a new position created as part of a six-point agenda for improving DHS.

Expedited Removal Expanded

On January 30, 2006, the Dept. of Homeland Security announced that expedited removal will now apply to those who have spent 14 days or less in the U.S. and are apprehended within 100 miles of the border or arrive by sea and are apprehended within 100 miles of a coastal border area.