Immigration

UNC-Chapel Hill student Shristi Sharma grew up in a small town in Iowa, believing she was American — until a conversation with her father during middle school changed everything she knew about her life.

Due to a massive backlog in employment-based green card applications, Indian nationals who’ve applied for green cards are often waiting many years to receive permanent residency status in the U.S. The long wait has impacted many Indian tech workers in North Carolina’s Triangle and also a growing number of college students whose parents brought them to the U.S. when they were young children.

State authorities say they’re getting complaints from consumers about health plans they never signed up for and bills for medical equipment they never used. These scams can be detrimental to the legal status of immigrant residents.

WUNC Youth Reporter Donna Diaz is a second-generation Honduran American. During the summer of 2022, she traveled to Honduras for the first time where she connected with the family she had never met before.

Two years after resettling, Afghans face legal delays in the U.S. immigration system while adapting to a new life.

Gov. Roy Cooper vetoed legislation Monday for the second time in four years that would demand North Carolina sheriffs learn the immigration status of their jails' inmates and make an effort to hold those whom federal agents want to pick up.

Republican lawmakers are attempting again to advance a measure that would require North Carolina’s sheriffs to learn the immigration status of their jails’ inmates and assist federal agents who want to detain them.

ICE said the reasons for the change is because of limited operational use and concerns about conditions, including a lack of outdoor recreation.

As they developed their radio journalism skills in a hybrid program, members of WUNC's Youth Reporting Institute unlocked new ways to make connections with various communities while amplifying diverse voices.

North Carolina ranks last in the country for the likelihood of having legal representation in immigration cases, according to a report from the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University. It also ranks 10th for total pending deportation cases.