Tens of thousands of people who crossed the border in the last year planned to apply for asylum. But the complexities of the process mean many will fail.
Nearly one million immigrants became Americans in 2022 after the pandemic delayed the process and prevented hundreds of thousands of people from voting in the 2020 election.
Phil O’Brien, a Briton who has run a Manhattan publication for several years, had his visa denied because immigration officials deemed his struggling business “marginal.”