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Jeffrey S. Chase, Dec. 8, 2018 - "Last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, a court generally known for its conservatism, issued an order granting an emergency stay of removal in the case of Manuel Leonidas Duran-Ortega v. U...

Hon. Jeffrey S. Chase, Aug. 5, 2018 - "An amicus brief was recently filed on behalf of a group of 20 former Immigration Judges and BIA Members (including myself) in the case of Rodriguez et. al. v. Robbins . The case, which was remanded back to the...

Jeffrey S. Chase, July 22, 2018 - "It is difficult not to cry (as I did) while listening to the recording of a recent immigration court hearing at a detention facility near the border. The immigration judge addresses a rape victim who fled to this...

Jeffrey S. Chase, July 22, 2018 - "It is difficult not to cry (as I did) while listening to the recording of a recent immigration court hearing at a detention facility near the border. The immigration judge addresses a rape victim who fled to this...

Jeffrey S. Chase, July 13, 2018 - "One month after Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued his cruel, misguided decision in Matter of A-B- , we are seeing the first signs of how the decision is being implemented by the BIA, USCIS, and ICE. ...

Jeffrey S. Chase, June 24, 2018 - "An attorney recently reported the following: at a Master Calendar hearing, an immigration judge advised that if on the Individual Hearing date, both the court and the ICE attorney do not believe the respondent is...

Jeffrey S. Chase, Mar. 21, 2018 - "On March 15, lawyers with the firm of Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on behalf of 11 former immigration judges and BIA Board members in...

Jeffrey S. Chase, Jan. 26, 2018 - The Impact of the BIA's Decision in Matter of W-Y-C- & H-O-B- "In Matter of W-Y-C-& H-O-B -, 27 I&N Dec. 189 (BIA Jan. 19, 2018) , the Board of Immigration Appeals held that “an applicant...

Jeffrey S. Chase, Mar. 10, 2018 - "On Monday, the Attorney General’s strange decision in Matter of E-F-H-L- had many of us talking well into the night. As background, the BIA published its precedent decision in Matter of E-F-H-L- in 2014. The...

Jeffrey S. Chase, June 3, 2018 - "When Attorney General Jeff Sessions issues his decision in Matter of A-B- (the case he certified to himself to decide whether “being a victim of private criminal activity” can constitute a particular...

Jeffrey S. Chase, Nov. 16, 2017 - "The BIA recently withdrew as moot its invitation for amicus briefs on the following issue: whether an applicant who filed a late application for asylum based on two separate grounds (i.e. religion and coercive population...

Jeffrey S. Chase, Dec. 8, 2017 - "I received a request to discuss the following hypothetical: an asylum-seeking couple has a U.S. citizen child. Because of the need for both parents to work, they send the child to their country of origin. The question...

Jeffrey S. Chase, Mar. 2, 2018 - "In its decisions involving claims for protection under Article III of the U.N. Convention Against Torture, the BIA defines “government acquiescence” to include “willful blindness” by government...

Jeffrey S. Chase, Dec. 28, 2017 - "On December 22, New York attorney Bryan S. Johnson filed a complaint with the Assistant Chief Immigration Judge for Conduct and Professionalism against Chief Immigration Judge MaryBeth Keller. The basis for the...

Jeffrey S. Chase, Dec. 2, 2017 - "The threat of honor killing may form the basis of an asylum claim. While men may be targeted as well,1 honor killings are a gender-based form of persecution, as the underlying basis is the view in certain societies...