USCIS, Dec. 8, 2023 "The employment-based (EB) annual limit for fiscal year (FY) 2024 will be higher than was typical before the pandemic, though lower than in FY 2021-2023. We are dedicated to...
Elliot Spagat, Associated Press, Dec. 8, 2023 "A federal judge was poised Friday to prohibit separation of families at the border for purposes of deterring immigration for eight years, preemptively...
In an unpublished decision dated Dec. 4, 2023 a panel of the Ninth Circuit remanded for a new hearing. The facts are stunning...unless you practice immigration law: "Because Lead Petitioner credibly...
This document is scheduled to be published in the Federal Register on 12/07/2023 "The Department of State (“Department”) is amending its regulation governing immigrant visas by removing...
On July 10, 2023, a Fifth Circuit panel dismissed Mr. Argueta-Hernandez' petition for review for lack of jurisdiction, 73 F.4th 300. On Dec. 5, 2023 the panel (Higginbotham, Graves, and Douglas)...
Matthew Hoppock, Sept. 13, 2021
"In January 2019 we submitted a FOIA request asking for the contents of the EOIR‘s “Guidance and Publications” intranet site. The site is part of the EOIR’s intranet, which is accessible to all EOIR employees, and appeared to contain guidance for immigration judges on a host of topics. In July 2019 we received roughly 94 heavily-redacted files (posted below as “First Production”) which includes charts related to which state crimes trigger removability, guidance for IJs on how to handle certain types of relief applications, competency documents, etc.
We appealed the agency’s decision to withhold a number of these records and to redact others. Our appeal was granted in August 2021. We’ve now started to receive supplemental documents (posted below as “Second Production”). This set relates to the agency’s handling of competency issues for detained respondents, including compliance with the Franco-Gonzalez injunction.
I expect more documents are on the way. I’ll post them here when we receive them."