Sept. 10, 2024 "Dear Secretary Mayorkas, Director Lechleitner, and Executive Associate Director Bible: We, the undersigned immigrant and civil rights organizations, legal services organizations...
State Department, Sept. 9, 2024 "The State Department, working in close collaboration with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, is pleased to announce the issuance of all available visas in...
David L. Cleveland and the Louise Trauma Center provide documentation to assist attorneys in preparing asylum cases for clients from Cameroon here and here .
Cyrus D. Mehta, Sept. 9, 2024 "At the naturalization interview the noncitizen applicant could face a rude shock if the examiner reveals that they made a misrepresentation in a long forgotten application...
USCIS, Aug. 29, 2024 "Effective Aug. 28, DHS is establishing a new C40 category on Form I-766, Employment Authorization Document (EAD). The C40 category is for individuals with a pending Form I...
Argueta Diaz de Gomez v. Wilkinson
"Diaz de Gomez claims that she received repeated death threats from a gang in Guatemala after she and her family witnessed a mass killing by gang members and refused to acquiesce to the gang’s extortion and other demands. ... [W]e reject the Board’s “excessively narrow” view of the nexus requirement, and conclude that Diaz de Gomez established that her familial ties were one central reason for her persecution. ... We also hold that the record conclusively establishes that the Guatemalan government was unable or unwilling to control Diaz de Gomez’s persecutors. We therefore grant the petition for review and remand for the Board to reconsider Diaz de Gomez’s claims in light of our holdings."
[Hats off to Pamela P. Keenan!]