NYLAG, Jan. 30, 2023 "...  Under the settlement approved in February 2022, the Board is required to place nearly all its opinions into an online reading room, accessible to all in perpetuity, ensuring that immigration advocates will have access...

In case you had forgotten... "... In February 2022, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York ordered the Board to establish an online library of its unpublished opinions – the result of a settlement between the NYLAG...

Amanda Gray writes: "I wanted to share this great withholding decision I received today. The BIA reversed [an IJ in] Salt Lake City in a detained withholding / CAT case (client is in Tacoma, WA in withholding only proceedings) on the grounds that...

Hats off to my associate, Samantha Hechtman , who writes: "Respondent is a native and citizen of Antigua Barbuda. He entered the United States as a lawful permanent resident on January 30, 1988. Respondent was detained by ICE on November 14, 2016...

Houston superstar (and former AILA President) Peter Williamson shared this recent unpublished BIA victory .  "[W]e conclude that the 2013 conviction for simple assault is not categorically a CIMT and the DHS has not established removability based...

Matter of Garnica Silva, A098 269 615 (BIA June 29, 2017, unpublished) - "[A]n alien granted U nonimmigrant status through stateside processing has been "admitted" to the United States as a lawful temporary resident, even if he never made...

Stephen W. Yale-Loehr , Professor of Immigration Law Practice, Cornell Law School, writes: "Our Cornell asylum/ CAT appeals clinic just won a BIA remand in a case involving a transgender person from Mexico.  A summary of the case and a redacted version...

Prof. Geoffrey A. Hoffman writes: "This case [ Matter of X-, June 12, 2017, unpub .] is significant because the respondent had been deported about 9 years ago unfairly as an alleged aggravated felon due to minor controlled substance convictions....

The BIA remanded to the IJ for fact-finding regarding whether respondent's one-time payment of $50 to Al-Shabaab to secure his release from kidnapping constituted "material" support. Hats off to Prof. R. Linus Chan of the Univ. of MN...

Matthew L. Hoppock writes: "This is a case where our client had an old conviction that was an Aggravated Felony and a crime involving moral turpitude, but was waivable under INA 212(c).  He also a conviction that was too recent to be waived under...

Matter of X-, June 14, 2016 - "[W]e conclude that the respondent filed her asylum application within a reasonable period of her seeking and receiving mental health services that treated her PTSD symptoms, specifically the avoidance that affected...

Prof. Lindsay M. Harris writes : "I write to share a positive decision from the BIA for a mother from El Salvador fleeing domestic violence. It may be helpful on the one-year filing deadline and immigration court backlogs, particular social group...

Mario R. Urizar writes: "We asked for a three panel member decision and oral argument to review INA 212(c) eligibility under Matter of Abdelghany as it applies to individuals with convictions after trial. Specifically, under the ineligibility language...

Cornell Law Prof. Steve Yale-Loehr writes: "Krsna Avila and Yanet Cordero, two of our students in the Cornell asylum appeals clinic, just won a remand from the BIA in a case involving religious persecution in Benin.  The case involved a man who converted...

IRAC, June 22, 2016 - "The Immigrant & Refugee Appellate Center, LLC, is pleased to release the most recent update to the 2016 edition of the  Index of Unpublished BIA Decisions , which now contains decisions issued through June 9, 2016. Among...

Matter of X-, Apr. 18, 2016, unpub . - "[A]nalysis is also required as to the issues of particular social group cognizability and nexus. The proposed social group in this case is "working class, single women in Michoacan." ... we conclude...

Christina Brown writes, "[Here is an] unpublished BIA decision granting asylum on an A-R-C-G- claim for an unmarried woman in a short term relationship. If you need any additional information, including facts about the case, please do not hesitate...

IRAC - "In this unpublished decision, the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) held that possession of marijuana with intent to distribute under 35 Pa. Cons. Stat. 780-113(a)(30) is not an aggravated felony because there exists a reasonable probability...

Geoffrey Hoffman, Feb. 2, 2016 - "The three interlocutory appeals of denials of law student appearances filed on behalf of  Cornell Law School ’s  clinical programs were successfully granted by the  Board of Immigration Appeals  (BIA). I would like...

IRAC, Jan. 13, 2016 - "The Immigrant & Refugee Appellate Center, LLC, is pleased to release the 2016 edition of its  Index of Unpublished Decisions of the Board of Immigration Appeals . The Index contains links to more than 1,000 unpublished...

Stephen W. Yale-Loehr , Professor of Immigration Law Practice, Cornell Law School, writes: "[ Linked here ] is a redacted version of a recent [18 Dec 2015] BIA asylum victory that my colleague Sital Kalantry and two Cornell law students litigated...

Russell Abrutyn writes: "The BIA granted a second motion to reopen and remanded for further consideration of the respondent's eligibility for cancellation of removal as a permanent resident.   In reopening, the BIA noted the ineffective assistance...

IRAC, Oct. 22, 2015 - "The Immigrant & Refugee Appellate Center, LLC, is pleased to release the most recent update to the 2015 edition of the  Index of Unpublished BIA Decisions , which now contains decisions issued through October 14, 2015....

Russell Abrutyn writes: "[Here are] two BIA decisions for a client of ours that may be of interest to your readers. The first decision is the BIA's decision reopening the Respondent's removal proceedings and the second is the BIA's decision...

Raed Gonzalez writes: "This client was ordered removed in absentia in 2001.  In 2014, a lawyer filed a motion to reopen asserting lack of notice.  The lawyer filed a patently deficient one-paragraph motion to reopen.  When this motion was denied...