USCIS, Feb. 2, 2023 "... To promote consistency in the processing of asylee and refugee adjustment of status applications and reduce barriers that might impede refugees from timely filing for adjustment of status, USCIS is updating policy guidance to clarify...
USCIS, Dec. 15, 2020 "U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is updating guidance in the USCIS Policy Manual regarding adjustment of status interview waiver categories and expanding the interview criteria for asylee and refugee adjustment of status...
USCIS, Aug. 21, 2020 Clarifying Procedures for Terminating Asylum Status in Relation to Consideration of an Application for Adjustment of Status "Asylum may be granted to those who meet the definition of a refugee and are physically present in the United...
Matter of N-A-I-, 27 I&N Dec. 72 (BIA 2017) (1) An alien who adjusts status under section 209(b) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C. § 1159(b) (2012), changes his or her status from that of an alien granted asylum to that of an alien lawfully...
Ali v. Lynch, Feb. 22, 2016 - "When affirming IJ Greenstein’s assertion that Ali’s LPR status terminated his asylum status, and as a result, Ali’s deportation proceedings could commence without termination of his asylum status, the BIA relied...
Anna Benvenue writes: "I just won summary judgment on a case in the Northern District of California in which my client's asylee adjustment application was denied by USCIS based on a finding that he was barred for terrorist inadmissibility. This is the...
"We therefore grant Siwe’s petition on this issue and hold that an alien, like Siwe, whose asylum has been terminated, is not prohibited from applying for adjustment of status under Section 209(b). ... We therefore grant Siwe’s petition for review...
"The government denied Amrollah’s application for permanent resident status after it concluded that Amrollah had engaged in terrorist activity under 8 U.S.C. § 1182(a)(3)(B)(iv)(VI)(dd) (2010) by providing material support to a Tier III terrorist organization...