Verified brief — 14 October 2026

DHS finalizes the end of automatic work-permit renewals. Its civil-fine rule for failure to depart is now in the Federal Register. Commerce’s “U.S. content” steel-and-aluminum guidance takes effect. EPA gives emitters until March for 2025 greenhouse-gas reports.

Published Oct 14, 2026, 7:25 a.m. EDT

Item 1
USCIS final rule (91 FR 65306): the October 2025 interim ban on automatic Employment Authorization Document extensions is adopted without change. Renewals filed on or after 30 October 2025 in covered categories no longer keep workers legal past the old card’s expiry while a decision is pending.
Read the article →91 FR 65306; 90 FR 48799
Item 2
Asylum applicants (C08) and adjustment-of-status applicants (C09) were about 80% of Form I-765 filings from January 2025 through June 2026, DHS says. C08 filings fell from 240,060 in January 2025 to 32,472 in June 2026. DHS received 653 comments on the interim rule.
Read the article →Final-rule preamble (DHS data)
Item 3
DHS/EOIR civil-penalties final rule published today at 91 FR 65390 and is effective: ICE and CBP keep the fast-track fine process; the only change from the June 2025 interim rule is late appeals for documented mail delays. Fines still run up to $998 a day for willful failure to depart.
Read the article →91 FR 65390 (DATES)
Item 4
BIS “U.S. content” guidance published today at 91 FR 65162 and applies to entries from 12:01 a.m. ET: for USMCA-qualifying Canadian and Mexican Annex I-C goods under Proclamation 11032, U.S. parts and U.S.-melted steel or U.S.-smelted aluminum and copper count toward the content that reduces the 25% duty, with a 15% floor.
Read the article →91 FR 65162; Proc. 11032 cl. (2)(d)
Item 5
EPA interim final rule (91 FR 65112): Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program filings for reporting year 2025 are due 10 March 2027, not 30 October 2026. No other part 98 changes. Comments on the deadline shift close 30 November.
Read the article →91 FR 65112 (DATES)
Item 6
Canada’s proposed jammer order for 27 police services remains open for comment until about 9 November (Canada Gazette I, 10 October).
Read the article →Canada Gazette I, Vol. 160, No. 41
Item 7
Bill C-31’s pesticide Division 13 is still in finance committee: ministers are due 19–20 October; amendments noon 22 October, the chair said as reported by The Hub.
Read the article →LEGISinfo; The Hub
Item 8
U.S. dyed-diesel order (EO 14435): IRS current-month releases still end at IR-2026-120 (7 October); no 7508A deferral or dyed-fuel penalty waiver posted as of this morning.
Read the article →IRS newsroom (checked 14 Oct)
Item 9
OFAC recent-actions page shows 13 October sanctions-list and enforcement items but no amendment, FAQ or revocation of General License 135 on Russian diesel.
Read the article →OFAC recent actions (checked 14 Oct)
Item 10
EIA weekly gasoline and on-highway diesel page still shows the week of 5 October as the latest prices; the listed next release date is today, 14 October, and the new figures were not posted at ship time.
Read the article →EIA gasoline and diesel page (checked 14 Oct ~07:00 ET)
Item 11
Trump v. Kingdom (26A416): still no Supreme Court order. Last docket entry remains the Solicitor General’s 9 October reply.
Read the article →SCOTUS docket 26A416 (checked 14 Oct)
Item 12
Ofcom Category 1 judicial-review hearing dates were listed for 13–14 October; no judgment was posted on the judiciary judgments page at ship time.
Read the article →Judiciary.uk judgments (checked 14 Oct)
Item 13
House sits to midnight on 19 October (Alberta referendum day) and takes up the C-38 fuel-excise pause at 6:30 p.m. The PBO puts the 2026-27 cost at $4.943 billion.
Read the article →PBO ES-2627-004-S; Journals No. 148