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)...
Here is a look back at what I posted to this blog on Dec. 5, 2006 .
Matter of M-R-M-S-, 28 I&N Dec. 757 (BIA 2023) - If a persecutor is targeting members of a certain family as a means of achieving some other ultimate goal unrelated to the protected ground, family...
EOIR, Dec. 1, 2023 "Application Deadline: Friday, December 15, 2023"
Sandra Grossman and Rachel Zoghlin write: "On July 18, 2014, U.S. District Court Judge John D. Bates ordered USCIS to produce to the Court unredacted copies of all disputed documents remaining at issue in long-pending asylum-related litigation under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), 5 USC Section 552. Plaintiff, Maria Andrea Mezerhane, a citizen of Venezuela, and daughter of the owner of the last independent television channel ("Globovision") critical of the Venezuelan Government, was widely recognized as having been ruthlessly persecuted by the Chavez regime. Ms. Mezerhane and her family were forced to flee Venezuela and apply for asylum in the United States in August of 2010. Despite the clear strength of Plaintiff and her family's independent but related asylum claims, and despite clear evidence that USCIS had approved the asylum cases just one month after they were filed, USCIS kept Plaintiff and her family members in immigration limbo for more than three years by failing to issue an asylum approval notice. Before the District Court were the parties' cross-motions for summary judgment in which Defendant USCIS claimed that 46 pages were properly withheld under various FOIA exemptions. Plaintiff sought additional disclosures under FOIA arguing in part that disclosure of all documents is of great public interest as it will help to protect the integrity and functioning of the U.S. asylum system. USCIS must produce all remaining documents by July 31, 2014. Case 1:13-cv-01461-JDB. Attached is a copy of the Order." [Hats off to Sandra Grossman and Rachel Zoghlin!]