Now that President Trump’s nominee, Joseph Edlow, has been confirmed as the director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, USCIS is likely to increase its activity. Edlow pledged in a July 18 agency announcement to “meet ever-evolving threats and ensure that we serve as the frontline to safeguard our homeland.”
The new director served at USCIS as deputy director for policy in 2020 and as chief counsel in 2019. Before that, he worked in the House of Representatives, including as counsel on the Immigration and Border Security Subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee, where he focused on enforcement and criminal immigration matters. He also spent six years in Baltimore as an assistant chief counsel in the Office of the Principal Legal Advisor at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Edlow earned a bachelor’s degree from Brandeis University and a law degree from Case Western Reserve University.
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