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...
Nguyen v. USA
"Petitioner Tien Nguyen, a Vietnamese national, pled guilty in 1997 to possession of counterfeit securities. In 2017, Nguyen filed a Petition for Coram Nobis, Audita Querela, or OtherAppropriate Relief (Dkt. No. 111) (the "Petition") in which he seeks to vacate his conviction on the ground that his guilty plea was made on his counsel's inaccurate advice that this offense did not constitute an "aggravated felony" which would subject him to deportation and render him ineligible for naturalization. As explained below, the court is granting the Petition because this case presents extraordinary circumstances warranting the unusual remedy of coram nobis relief."