This is the text of the Efficient Case and Docket Management in Immigration Proceedings Final rule as signed by the Attorney General, but the official version of the Final rule will be as it is published...
Matter of Furtado, 28 I&N Dec. 794 (BIA 2024) (1) A petitioner seeking approval of a Form I-130 for an adopted child from a country that is a party to the Convention on Protection of Children and...
NILA Practice Advisory, May 17, 2024 "Noncitizens and their attorneys are experiencing record-breaking delays in the adjudication of benefit applications by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services...
Hon. Jeffrey S. Chase, May 16, 2024 "In 2003, the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees published Guidelines for applying the bars to asylum known internationally as the “exclusion...
Cyrus D. Mehta and Kaitlyn Box, May 14, 2024 "In “What if the Job Has Changed Since the Labor Certification Was Approved Many Years Ag o” we discussed strategies for noncitizen workers...
In Matter of X-, July 17, 2013 IJ Bennett ruled: "Respondent's application for asylum is granted because he has established a well-founded fear of future persecution based on his membership in the particular social group of relatives of law enforcement officials who have been targeted for harm. Because he is eligible for asylum, he also qualifies for withholding of removal. Lastly, because he has not shown at least a 50 percent chance that he will be tortured upon removal to Mexico, his application for CAT relief is denied." [Hats off to Maria E. Andrade!]