FY 2025 Budget Impasse Could Lead To Federal Shutdown, Though Some Immigration Processing Would Continue

At a glance

• If appropriations legislation or a stopgap spending bill is not passed by Congress by September 30, 2024, the federal government will enter a partial shutdown on October 1.
• A shutdown would mean that fee-based immigration processing – including USCIS benefit and State Department visa and citizenship document processing – will continue. However, the USCIS E-Verify, EB-4 non-minister religious worker program, and Conrad 30 program would expire if Congress fails to extend them.
• Department of Labor immigration functions such as LCA, prevailing wage, and PERM processing would be suspended in a shutdown, until Congress passes a stopgap spending measure or a FY 2025 budget.