Clarification of Discretionary Employment Authorization for Certain Aliens

What it does

The Department of Homeland Security proposes to limit and clarify eligibility for discretionary employment authorization for aliens paroled into the United States temporarily for urgent humanitarian reasons or significant public benefit, who have been granted deferred action, or against whom a final order of removal exists and who are temporarily released from custody on an order of supervision. DHS further proposes to specify that aliens applying for employment authorization who admit to committing, have been arrested for, or have been convicted of certain criminal acts do not warrant a favorable exercise of discretion unless there are significant countervailing public interests, which may include assisting law enforcement activity in the United States.

The Homeland Security Department's summary, as published in the Federal Register.

What it would change

3 parts of Title 8 of the Code of Federal Regulations:

8 CFR 106, 8 CFR 241, 8 CFR 274

Before this

No earlier Federal Register document under regulation identifier 1615-AC98 since Jan. 1, 2025.

What happens next and when

Submission of Public Comments: Written comments must be submitted on or before August 4, 2026. Comments on the information collection described in the "Paperwork Reduction Act" section of this proposed rule must be received on or before August 4, 2026. The electronic Federal Docket Management System will accept comments prior to midnight eastern time at the end of that day.

The agency's dates, word for word.

Check it yourself

• The document in the Federal Register
• Docket USCIS-2026-0067 on Regulations.gov
• Title 8 on eCFR

The record as published

Source: the Federal Register (public domain). The document in the Federal Register