Matt Adams writes: "Last month NWIRP and the Alaska Immigration Justice Project filed a class action challenging the USCIS policy requiring U visa applicants for adjustment of status to file a medical exam, form I-693, even though they are not subject... Read More
Attorney Michael M. Shabani obtained this Dec. 16, 2022 AAO victory for his U visa client based on being the victim of the crime of perjury by disbarred attorney Douglas Howard Cooner. See , Cooner v. State , 272 So. 3d 206 (Ala. Crim. App. 2018) . ... Read More
JAMES BARRAGÁN, Texas Tribune, OCT. 13, 2022 "Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar on Thursday certified that 49 migrants who were flown to Martha’s Vineyard by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis last month were victims of a crime. The move... Read More
Barrios Garcia v. DHS "Edmer Eudulio Barrios Garcia, Doublas Arguijo, Ardiles Yasdami Mendez Mendez, and Sudhaben Pankajkumar Patel are noncitizens. They were victims of grave crimes; they cooperated with law enforcement. They applied for U visas... Read More
Garcia Cabrera v. Garland "This petition arises out of an immigration judge’s (IJ) refusal (affirmed by the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA)) to continue the deportation proceedings of a movant that the IJ himself recognized was likely... Read More
USCIS, Nov. 22, 2021 "USCIS mistakenly rejected certain applications for employment authorization ( Form I-765, Application for Employment Authorization ) from petitioners for U nonimmigrant status that were filed without a fee (or request for... Read More
AAO, Oct. 28, 2021 "The Director of the Nebraska Service Center denied the Form I-918, Petition for U Nonimmigrant Status (U petition), concluding that the Petitioner did not establish that she was the victim of a qualifying crime. The matter is... Read More
Barrios Garcia v. DHS "Plaintiffs have sufficiently alleged that USCIS has unreasonably delayed the adjudication of their U-visa applications. Because the BFD process was issued after Plaintiffs’ complaints were filed, Plaintiffs should be... Read More
Espinal-Lagos v. Garland "Kevelin Danery Espinal-Lagos and her two minor sons were ordered removed to Honduras by an Immigration Judge. While their appeal was pending before the Board of Immigration Appeals, the petitioners filed derivative U visa... Read More
USCIS, June 14, 2021 "U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is publishing guidance in the USCIS Policy Manual on employment authorization and deferred action for principal petitioners for U nonimmigrant status and qualifying family... Read More
Granados Benitez v. Wilkinson "Petitioner Carlos Antonio Granados Benitez seeks review of the Board of Immigration Appeals' ("BIA" or "Board") denial of his motion to reopen his removal proceedings and to remand to the immigration... Read More
Medina Tova v. Zuchowski "On de novo review, Herrera v. USCIS, 571 F.3d 881, 885 (9th Cir. 2009), we hold that 8 C.F.R. § 214.14(f)(4) is not a permissible interpretation of the governing statute insofar as it requires that spouses be married... Read More
ASISTA, Feb. 13, 2020 "Changes to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) policy were announced August 2, 2019 that create significant additional barriers for victims of crime who cooperate with law enforcement in the investigation and prosecution... Read More
Baez-Sanchez v. Barr "On [a previous] petition for review, we held that 8 C.F.R. §1003.10(a) permits immigration judges to exercise all of the Attorney General’s powers, except those expressly reserved by some other regulation. Baez... Read More
Perez Perez v. Wolf "Pedro Tomas Perez Perez brought suit in the district court under the Administrative Procedure Act (“APA”), challenging the denial of his U visa petition by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Service ... Read More