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BIA, Sept. 4, 2020 "Amicus Invitation No. 20-04-09 AMICUS INVITATION (Alien Notice), Due Date: October 5, 2020 September 4, 2020 The Board of Immigration Appeals welcomes interested members of the public to file amicus curiae briefs discussing...

This document is scheduled to be published in the Federal Register on 08/26/2020 "The Department of Justice (“Department”) proposes to amend the regulations of the Executive Office for Immigration Review (“EOIR”) regarding...

EOIR, Aug. 7, 2020 "The Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) today announced the appointment of Michael P. Baird, Sunita B. Mahtabfar, and Sirce E. Owen as appellate immigration judges in EOIR’s Board of Immigration Appeals. Biographical...

Office of the Attorney General, July 8, 2020 "Matter of A-M-R-C-, Respondent Decided by Attorney General July 8, 2020 U.S. Department of Justice Office of the Attorney General BEFORE THE ATTORNEY GENERAL On June 17, 2020, pursuant to...

Felipe de la Hoz, The Nation, June 30, 2020 "The Board of Immigration Appeals, once an impartial appellate court, has become a new front in the Trump administration’s war against migrants."

Matter of A-M-R-C-, 28 I&N Dec. 7 (A.G. 2020) Interim Decision #3986 Matter of A-M-R-C-, Respondent Decided by Attorney General June 17, 2020 U.S. Department of Justice Office of the Attorney General BEFORE THE ATTORNEY GENERAL Pursuant...

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...

Thompson v. Barr "Petitioner Richard Marvin Thompson ("Thompson") appeals the Board of Immigration Appeals' ("BIA") denial of his motion to reopen sua sponte his immigration proceedings, alleging that the BIA committed a...

Prof. Geoffrey Hoffman, May 17, 2020 "The latest decision from the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA), Matter of Herrera-Vasquez, 27 I&N Dec. 825 (BIA 2020) , is another case in the trend of cases at the Board validating unlawful Notice to...

Zerezghi v. USCIS "We hold that the BIA violated due process by relying on undisclosed evidence that Zerezghi and Meskel did not have an opportunity to rebut. In making its initial determination of marriage fraud, the BIA also violated due process...

EOIR, Apr. 3, 2020 "This Policy Memorandum (PM) updates EOIR's policies regarding permissible signatures on documents filed with the immigration courts and the Board of Immigration Appeals. As of March 31, 2020, EOIR has begun accepting digital...

Kassim v. Barr "The overarching question in this case is whether the Board of Immigration Appeals applied its own standard of review correctly. After an immigration judge granted a waiver of inadmissibility and deferral of removal to Ahmed Shariif...

Matter of J-J-G-, 27 I&N Dec. 808 (BIA 2020) (1) The exceptional and extremely unusual hardship for cancellation of removal is based on a cumulative consideration of all hardship factors, but to the extent that a claim is based on the health of...

This document is scheduled to be published in the Federal Register on 04/01/2020 "This rule amends the Department of Justice regulations relating to the organization of the Board of Immigration Appeals (“Board”) by adding two Board...

Matter of R-A-V-P-, 27 I&N Dec. 803 (BIA 2020) The Immigration Judge properly determined that the respondent was a flight risk and denied his request for a custody redetermination where, although he had a pending application for asylum, he had no...