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This document is scheduled to be published in the Federal Register on 05/29/2024 "On September 8, 2023, the Department of Justice (“Department”) published a notice of proposed rulemaking (“NPRM”) proposing to rescind an...

EOIR, May 10, 2024 "The Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) today announced the appointment of 20 immigration judges—18 immigration judges who joined courts in California, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania...

Appellate Immigration Judge "This position is in the Board of Immigration Appeals, within the Executive Office for Immigration Review. The incumbent reports to a Deputy Chief Appellate Immigration Judge, who in turn reports to the Chief Appellate...

This document is scheduled to be published in the Federal Register on 04/02/2024 "On April 1, 2020, the Department of Justice (“the Department” or “DOJ”) published an interim final rule (“IFR”) with request for...

Loyola, Mar. 12, 2024 "Adjunct Law Professor Homero Lopez has been appointed to the Board of Immigration Appeals, the top administrative appellate agency to review immigration court decisions in the United States! Judge Lopez will start considering...

EOIR provided these slides in response to my FOIA request.

This document is scheduled to be published in the Federal Register on 09/08/2023 "In December 2020, the Department of Justice issued a final rule (the “AA96 Final Rule”) establishing novel limits on the authority of immigration judges...

MPI, July 20, 2023 By Muzaffar Chishti, Doris Meissner, Stephen Yale-Loehr, Kathleen Bush-Joseph and Christopher Levesque "With a backlog of nearly 2 million cases, the U.S. immigration court system is in crisis. Many cases now take years to...

MPI "When: Thursday, July 20, 2023 11:00 a.m. EDT (New York, DC) / 10:00 a.m. CDT (Chicago) / 9 a.m. MDT (Boise) / 8 a.m. PDT (Seattle) Speakers: Jojo Annobil , Executive Director, Immigrant Justice Corps Muzaffar...

DOJ, July 18, 2023 "The Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) seeks highly-qualified individuals to join our team of expert professionals in becoming a part of our challenging and rewarding Agency. The primary mission of the EOIR is to...

EOIR, June 23, 2023 "The Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) at the Department of Justice (DOJ) is seeking a highly-qualified individual to join our team of expert professionals who serve as Appellate Immigration Judges. This is an Excepted...

USCIS, May 4, 2023 "We now are affirmatively creating and providing documented evidence of their status to certain new asylees and lawful permanent residents upon our receiving notification that an immigration judge or the Board of Immigration...

NYLAG, Jan. 30, 2023 "...  Under the settlement approved in February 2022, the Board is required to place nearly all its opinions into an online reading room, accessible to all in perpetuity, ensuring that immigration advocates will have access...

In case you had forgotten... "... In February 2022, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York ordered the Board to establish an online library of its unpublished opinions – the result of a settlement between the NYLAG...

PWS, Dec. 4, 2020 " Friends, you know, and I know, what is the biggest crisis facing the American justice system today. One that undermines and threatens racial justice, social justice, equality before the law, voting rights, American values, and...

Tanvi Misra, Roll Call, May 27, 2020 "The Justice Department offered buyouts to pre-Trump administration career members on its influential immigration appeals board as part of an ongoing effort to restructure the immigration court system with new...

AIC, Feb. 28, 2019 "In July and November of 2018, the American Immigration Council, along with the Kathryn O. Greenberg Immigration Justice Clinic at the Benjamin Cardozo School of Law, filed two requests under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA...

"Immigrants already on United States soil may have to wait years to see an immigration court judge. It’s a problem that’s worse than it’s ever been, with a backlog of over 400,000 cases. In his first ever TV interview on camera, the Director of the...

EOIR, Sept. 15, 2022 "As part of EOIR’s “Access EOIR” initiative, the agency is seeking to revise its Form  EOIR-26 ,  Notice of Appeal from a Decision of an Immigration Judge,  to include a section for unrepresented respondents to consent to have...

EOIR, Apr. 13, 2022 "Attorney General Merrick B. Garland has appointed Beth Liebmann as a Member of EOIR’s Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA). ... Judge Liebmann earned a Bachelor of Arts in 1981 from Brandeis University and a Juris Doctor in 1984...

As of Jan. 19, 2022 there are 82,645 appeals pending at the BIA.

Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 236 / Monday, December 13, 2021 "On December 4, 2020, the Executive Office for Immigration Review (“EOIR”) published a notice of proposed rulemaking (“NPRM” or “proposed rule”), proposing to amend EOIR’s regulations...

EOIR, Nov. 22, 2021 "On July 15, 2021, the Attorney General issued a precedential decision in Matter of Cruz-Valdez, 28 I&N Dec. 326 (A.G. 2021). In that decision, the Attorney General restored the authority of immigration judges and the Board...

EOIR, Aug. 9, 2021 "The Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) announces that effective today, the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) will begin transitioning to a new format for unpublished decisions. The new format is similar to that...