EOIR provided these slides in response to my FOIA request.
EOIR, Sept. 28, 2023 "This Director’s Memorandum (DM) provides guidance to Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) adjudicators on the enforcement priorities and exercises of prosecutorial...
State Department "DV-2025 Program: The online registration period for the DV-2025 Program begins on Wednesday, October 4, 2023, at 12:00 noon, Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) (GMT-4) and concludes on...
USCIS, Sept. 27, 2023 "U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is updating policy guidance in the USCIS Policy Manual regarding maximum validity periods for Employment Authorization Documents...
This document is scheduled to be published in the Federal Register on 09/29/2023 "Eligible citizens, nationals, and passport holders from designated Visa Waiver Program countries may apply for admission...
Sow v. Barr
"Hamid Sow, a citizen of Guinea, seeks review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (BIA) denial of his motion to remand based upon ineffective assistance of counsel and motion to reopen based upon new evidence. After careful review and with the benefit of oral argument, we conclude that the BIA abused its discretion in denying Sow’s motion to remand based on ineffective assistance of counsel. We therefore grant Sow’s petition for review, vacate the BIA’s decisions, and remand to the BIA with instructions to remand to the IJ for reconsideration of Sow’s asylum application. ... We therefore do not need to speculate as to whether the outcome may have been different if [attorney] Gurian had performed adequately. The IJ’s uniquely direct statement confirms that it would have. Because the IJ explicitly said that he would have granted Sow’s application but for the evidentiary inconsistencies, we have no trouble concluding that there is a reasonable probability that the outcome of Sow’s merits hearing would have been different with adequate assistance of counsel. See id. at 1274. Accordingly, we grant Sow’s petition, vacate the BIA’s decision, and remand to the BIA with instructions to remand to the IJ for reconsideration of Sow’s asylum application. PETITION GRANTED."
[Hats off to Keren Zwick, of the National Immigrant Justice Center, and Adele El-Khouri, Elaine Goldenberg and Jeremy S. Kreisberg of Munger, Tolles & Olsen!]