Sanchez-Perez v. Garland "One day after he pleaded guilty to violating a Tennessee domestic-violence law, the federal government initiated removal proceedings against Jose Yanel Sanchez-Perez. Ultimately...
In a letter dated April 12, 2024 the State Department and USCIS discuss "concerns about biometrics collection for applicants for T nonimmigrant status and petitioners for U nonimmigrant status abroad...
Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 84 / Tuesday, April 30, 2024 "This final rule adopts and replaces regulations relating to key aspects of the placement, care, and services provided to unaccompanied...
Bouarfa v. Mayorkas Issue: Whether a visa petitioner may obtain judicial review when an approved petition is revoked on the basis of nondiscretionary criteria. Case below: 75 F.4th 1157 (11th Cir....
Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 84 / Tuesday, April 30, 2024 "On December 19, 2016, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published an interim final rule (2016 interim rule) amending its regulations...
Madrid-Mancia v. Atty. Gen.
"Edin Donelsy Madrid-Mancia received a document labeled “Notice to Appear” from the Department of Homeland Security informing her that she faced removal, but it omitted the date and time of her removal hearing. A harmless oversight, reasons the Department of Justice, because it sent Madrid-Mancia a second document (this one labeled “Notice of Hearing”) years later providing the missing information. When Madrid-Mancia did not appear as directed, she was ordered removed in absentia. But Congress only allows a supplemental notice “in the case of any change or postponement in the time and place of [an alien’s removal] proceedings.” 8 U.S.C. § 1229(a)(2)(A). Here, no change or postponement occurred, and DHS never issued a new Notice to Appear, so we will grant Madrid-Mancia’s petition and remand for the agency to rescind her removal order."
[Hats off to Aleksandra Gontaryuk!]