The Legal Aid Society filed a complaint against US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and the US Department of Homeland Security over their failure to update the USCIS website with crucial decisions in immigration benefits cases. Beginning March of 2025, USCIS ceased posting non-precedent Administrative Appeals Office (AAO) decisions on their website – decisions which provide immigration law practitioners, and the public at large, with valuable insight into how the agency adjudicates certain applications for immigration benefits. USCIS never publicly acknowledged or provided information regarding the abrupt change to stop posting non-precedent AAO decisions, and continues to state on their website that decisions will be posted within a month of being rendered.

On November 18, 2025, the Legal Aid Society (along with co-counsel American Immigration Council and the National Immigration Project) filed a request under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) seeking information related to USCIS’s sudden decision cease posting non-precedent AAO decisions. However, USCIS failed to provide a timely determination with regards to the FOIA request, and USCIS has yet to resume posting the necessary decisions. Accordingly, The Legal Aid Society v. USCIS was filed soon after on February 10, 2026. On March 30, 2026 the court ordered USCIS to post all current and prior unposted decisions from March 12, 2025 to the present by November 30, 2026. The case remains ongoing.