The Trump administration on Friday formally proposed a regulation that would dramatically restrict work permits for asylum-seekers.

Under the draft rule, work permits, officially known as Employment Authorization Documents, would be withheld until average asylum processing times fall below 180 days.

The Donald Trump administration Friday announced a sweeping overhaul of the asylum system to reduce the burden of meritless applications. Work permits.

The Donald Trump administration has proposed sweeping changes to the US asylum system, including delaying or suspending work permits for applicants.

The US department of homeland security (DHS) has proposed a plan to obstruct asylum seekers from obtaining work authorisations.

The new DHS proposal would pause processing of work permits for all new asylum applicants until average processing times for certain asylum applications reach 180 days or lower.

The Trump administration on Thursday moved to sharply reduce how long refugees, asylees and other legally protected immigrants can work in the United States, cutting the maximum validity of work ...

A government agency says that, under the plan, new work permit applications for asylum seekers 'would be paused for an ...

DHS' new proposal recommends changes to US work permits to target meritless applications, processing times and backlog.

Under the new framework, asylum seekers would be unable to obtain work permits until specific processing benchmarks are met.

The Trump administration has proposed a rule that could pause work permits for migrants filing asylum applications for "many years" in the United States.