USCIS, Sept. 25, 2024 "Policy Highlights • Clarifies that USCIS calculates the CSPA age of an applicant who established extraordinary circumstances and is excused from the sought to acquire...
NILA, Sept. 25, 2024 "Increasingly, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and other immigration agencies are challenging venue in U.S. district court lawsuits brought by noncitizens...
This document is scheduled to be published in the Federal Register on 09/26/2024 "Eligible citizens, nationals, and passport holders from designated Visa Waiver Program countries may apply for admission...
Mazariegos-Rodas v. Garland "Beky Izamar Mazariegos-Rodas and Engly Yeraicy Mazariegos-Rodas (collectively, the Petitioners) are two sisters who are natives and citizens of Guatemala. The Petitioners...
Cyrus Mehta, Sept. 23, 2024 "When the Administrative Appeals Office (AAO) designated Matter of Z-A- Inc . as an “Adopted Decision” in 2016 it was seen as a breakthrough as it recognized...
Sandra Grossman and Rachel Zoghlin write: "On July 18, 2014, U.S. District Court Judge John D. Bates ordered USCIS to produce to the Court unredacted copies of all disputed documents remaining at issue in long-pending asylum-related litigation under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), 5 USC Section 552. Plaintiff, Maria Andrea Mezerhane, a citizen of Venezuela, and daughter of the owner of the last independent television channel ("Globovision") critical of the Venezuelan Government, was widely recognized as having been ruthlessly persecuted by the Chavez regime. Ms. Mezerhane and her family were forced to flee Venezuela and apply for asylum in the United States in August of 2010. Despite the clear strength of Plaintiff and her family's independent but related asylum claims, and despite clear evidence that USCIS had approved the asylum cases just one month after they were filed, USCIS kept Plaintiff and her family members in immigration limbo for more than three years by failing to issue an asylum approval notice. Before the District Court were the parties' cross-motions for summary judgment in which Defendant USCIS claimed that 46 pages were properly withheld under various FOIA exemptions. Plaintiff sought additional disclosures under FOIA arguing in part that disclosure of all documents is of great public interest as it will help to protect the integrity and functioning of the U.S. asylum system. USCIS must produce all remaining documents by July 31, 2014. Case 1:13-cv-01461-JDB. Attached is a copy of the Order." [Hats off to Sandra Grossman and Rachel Zoghlin!]