Hello, everybody. Jacob here and I'm recording this quick video to announce the Supreme Court's
ruling this morning issuing a stay on the injunction that was issued in October 2019.
Essentially, that injunction put a hold on the public charge rule. And the decision today
will bring this public charge into effect. What that means is that the public charge
regulations, basically, will determine who is deemed to be a public charge and therefore
not be able to immigrate are coming into effect right now, except the state of Illinois, where
they have some other litigation going on. But otherwise, in all other states, the public
charge rule will be in effect. They will require all clients, all people that are applying
for Adjustment of Status to get ready. We've done quite a few videos about the public charge.
And we'll do probably a new video just to kind of summarize what it is. But if you look
at our videos before, we specifically explained the guidelines, the formula that they are
looking into, as they deem somebody to be a public charge. And so, it's really important
to be aware of that because this is something that just happened today, in early 2020, and
that is going to be putting a lot of people in danger. It's going to change the way we
file the Adjustment of Status applications. And it's not a positive news, obviously, but
we have to be ready and somehow we anticipated it. So, those of you who are watching this
video right now, post in the comments below any questions you have, any concerns. I will
do more videos to update our viewers about these new changes that are coming up. But
as of now, I just wanted to update about this. And again, this was a Supreme Court decision,
five to four. It was a close call, but it did happen. And as you recall, some of the
public charge stricter things were really, that it gives them a lot of discretion as
to determine who is going to be a public charge, and also people that are likely to become
a public charge. This is really what the scary thing about this legislation. And again, it's
something that we anticipated. I mean, we knew the government is not going to be quiet
about it. But now, it is time to prepare our Adjustment of Status applications and how
we're going to be looking at cases in the future when the public charge is now something
that we have to be concerned about. So once again, things like people that used public
charge in the past 24 months, they have the 12 points test. We talked about who is subject
to public charge and who isn't, the different formulas that the government is going to apply?
What are some of the benefits that if somebody took those benefits, would they be subject
to the rules. All these things, we already covered in previous videos. And I'll try to
do an updated video just kind of to summarize it all but the purpose of this video is just
to announce that, today, the Supreme Court essentially put a stay on that injunction
from October, which now brings into effect, public charge rule, except the state of Illinois.
So once again, we just wanted to kind of do a quick video to update you, guys. If you
have any questions, post them in the comments below. Subscribe to a channel because we're
going to be putting a lot of updates in the next few days. If you know somebody who is
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So once again, Supreme Court put a stay on that injunction from October and now public
charge rule is in effect. Alright, so thanks for watching. Let me know of any questions
you have. And we'll see you in our next video later this week.