The federal government’s changes to the public charge regulation, which affect some immigrants’ pathways to citizenship, were slated to go into effect tomorrow, October 15, 2019. 

However, according to news reports on Friday, a ruling in the U.S. District Court in Manhattan resulted in a preliminary nationwide injunction prohibiting the administration from enforcing the rule, a federal judge in Washington state blocked the regulation nationwide and a third district court judge in San Francisco said the administration could not enforce the rule within the jurisdiction of the 9th Circuit Court