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Extended the formal-entry compliance date to January 20, 2027 and modified the Entry Type 13 test to allow entries with or without electronic partner-agency data
CBP has pushed the formal customs entry requirement for prescription drugs and other regulated mail to January 20, 2027, 90 days after the original October 22 deadline. The underlying suspension of the $800 de minimis exemption for postal arrivals remains in place.
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Implementing the new postal entry regime
U.S. Customs and Border Protection moved the compliance date for formal entry of certain postal shipments to January 20, 2027, 90 days past the original Oct. 22 deadline. CBP said filers need the time to update systems and build the data connections the rule requires.
Updated Yesterday
Approving refunds; about $126 billion approved as of its latest court filing, with $1.1 billion held for missing bank details; opened Phase 3 to a second wave of importers on October 20
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has approved about $126 billion in refunds for tariffs the Supreme Court struck down in February, out of roughly $166 billion collected. The money moves through CAPE, the portal CBP built after the ruling and opened on April 20. Judge Richard Eaton has ordered the agency to reopen entries it treated as final for importers in litigation, and on October 8 he certified a class of importers who never sued.
Estimates $462,800/day in pause costs across the five projects, plus about $7 million to demobilize and remobilize crews; also says it is 'actively considering' reducing the scope of the Big Bend barrier project
A federal judge halted border-barrier construction across Texas's Big Bend region on October 2, freezing five contracts worth about $7.5 billion and staying the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) construction waivers that had let contractors bypass environmental review. Work had already begun on 30-foot steel panels along a 47-mile stretch of Hudspeth County when the injunction landed. The region is a quarter of the U.S.-Mexico border, yet Border Patrol made about 160 arrests there in August, a sign of how little cross-border traffic flows through the rugged terrain.
Updated Oct 14
Conducts border searches of electronic devices
Travelers flying into airports in New York, Connecticut, and Vermont can now have their cellphones searched at the border with no warrant and no suspicion. The Second Circuit ruled September 17 that the Fourth Amendment's border search exception covers manual phone inspections at ports of entry.
Updated Sep 18
Prints fixed admit-until dates on Form I-94
F-1 student visas used to stay valid as long as you kept studying, with no expiration date printed on your arrival record. As of September 15, 2026, that changed: U.S. Customs and Border Protection now prints a fixed 'admit until' date, usually the program end date capped at four years, plus a 30-day grace period.
Updated Sep 15
Operates the SFO holding facility and sets detention standards
A lounge inside San Francisco International Airport has become a makeshift holding cell. Immigration agents held 25 people there for more than three days this year, some in chairs under lights left on all night, with limited access to medical care, legal representation, or beds.
Updated Sep 4
Gains expanded authority over import compliance
For decades, importing into the United States mostly meant filing paperwork and paying duties. A June 3 executive order changed that, requiring importers to certify supply-chain compliance, disclose who really owns their business, and hold U.S. assets to cover any duties owed.
Updated Jun 11
Separately funded, operations continue
The U.S. Senate passed a DHS funding bill by voice vote at 2:20 a.m. on March 27, 2026. It ends the partial shutdown that began February 14 for most agencies, but leaves out ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations and most U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
Updated May 29
Partner agency in operation
From December 4, 2025, to February 12, 2026, Minneapolis hosted Operation Metro Surge, the largest federal immigration enforcement operation in American history: 2,000 agents, 4,000+ arrests, two U.S. citizens fatally shot. On February 12, White House border czar Tom Homan announced the operation's conclusion, declaring Minnesota 'now less of a sanctuary state.'
Updated May 27
Border Patrol agents involved in Pretti shooting
A three-day partial government shutdown ended February 3 when the House passed a split funding package 217-214 and Trump signed it. The deal provides full-year appropriations for five agencies through September and extends DHS funding through February 13.
Updated May 23
Agents killed Alex Pretti, facing scrutiny over Minneapolis operations
Three Minnesota congresswomen entered a Minneapolis ICE detention center on January 10 but were ordered out minutes later. They'd come three days after an ICE agent shot 37-year-old U.S. citizen Renee Good in the head during what the Trump administration called the largest immigration enforcement operation ever. DHS Secretary Kristi Noem secretly signed a seven-day notice rule the day after Good's killing—a rule a federal judge had already blocked—and Judge Jia Cobb refused to block it on January 20.
Updated May 20
Controls airport inspection designations and the fee-based access model
The U.S. border moves at airports too, quietly, through paperwork. CBP's latest technical amendment adds five airports to its user-fee list and removes Ontario, California.
Updated May 15
Controls port-of-entry parole decisions and tracks encounters used in DHS rationale
DHS just turned a promised “legal pathway” into a ticking clock. A Federal Register notice published December 15, 2025 terminates every Family Reunification Parole program tied to seven countries—and tells people already here that their parole will end on January 14, 2026.
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