United States Relocation Index

How United States scores

Civil rights and rule of law | Infrastructure reliability

• Peace and conflict safety65
• Immigrant safety62
• Visa accessibility41
• Residence permit realism47
• Labor market access68
• Healthcare62
• Civil rights76
• Discrimination safety70
• Status security52
• Infrastructure reliability73
• Cost of living sustainability76

Recent news impact

No high-signal enacted short-term change was detected that would clearly and immediately worsen or improve the United States’ near-term relocation outlook for immigrants. The available documents in the prompt are either (a) not enacted (e.g., a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking) or (b) function mainly as aggregators/administrative fee or procedural updates without a clearly relocation-driving directional effect in the short window.

Sources

• Employment-Based Immigrant Visas (Overview) - U.S. Department of StateU.S. Department of State
• Form I-485 Instructions - U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)
• Learn About the Immigration Court - Executive Office for Immigration Review (DOJ)U.S. Department of Justice (EOIR)
• DHS Enforcement Prioritites (Dataset) - data.gov (ICE / Department of Homeland Security)U.S. Department of Homeland Security
• Freedom in the World 2026: United States country report - Freedom HouseFreedom House
• FAM 9 FAM 502.1 IV Classifications Overview - U.S. Department of State (Foreign Affairs Manual)U.S. Department of State
• Employment Authorization Reform for Asylum Applicants (Notice of Proposed Rulemaking) (Federal Register - public inspection PDF)U.S. Department of Homeland Security (Federal Register / USCIS)
• Executive Office for Immigration Review | Federal Register Notices 2026 (EOIR fee inflation adjustments; EOIR procedures and DHS-related immigration rules listed by date)U.S. Department of Justice (EOIR)