American Immigration Council (Council) and the National Immigration Project, Jan. 17, 2025 "A stay of removal prevents the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from executing a final order of removal...
Texas v. USA "This is the latest chapter in the long-running litigation challenging the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, commonly known as DACA. In 2021, a district court held that...
Matter of Arciniegas-Patino Where parties were properly served with electronic notice of the briefing schedule, a representative’s failure to diligently monitor the inbox, including the spam folder...
This document is scheduled to be published in the Federal Register on 01/17/2025 "The United States supports the human rights and fundamental freedoms of the residents of Hong Kong. The People's...
Alan Lee, Jan. 16, 2025 "USCIS’s second part of the H-1B proposed regulations, “Modernizing H-1B Requirements, Providing Flexibility in the F-1 Program, and Program Improvements Affecting...
Gonzalez Ruano v. Barr
"In September 2016, members of a Mexican drug cartel kidnapped, tortured, and threatened to kill petitioner Mauricio Gonzalez Ruano, who was living with his family in the Mexican state of Jalisco. ... We find that the record here compels a finding that the torture and persecution Gonzalez Ruano has suffered in the past and fears in the future were and would be because of his membership in the “particular social group” of his wife’s family. Gonzalez Ruano thus demonstrated statutory eligibility for asylum in the United States. We GRANT his petition for review and REMAND the case to the Board for further proceedings consistent with this opinion."
[Hats off to Lisa Katharine Koop, Ashley Huebner and Mark Aaron Schwartz!]