This is the text of the Efficient Case and Docket Management in Immigration Proceedings Final rule as signed by the Attorney General, but the official version of the Final rule will be as it is published...
Matter of Furtado, 28 I&N Dec. 794 (BIA 2024) (1) A petitioner seeking approval of a Form I-130 for an adopted child from a country that is a party to the Convention on Protection of Children and...
NILA Practice Advisory, May 17, 2024 "Noncitizens and their attorneys are experiencing record-breaking delays in the adjudication of benefit applications by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services...
Hon. Jeffrey S. Chase, May 16, 2024 "In 2003, the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees published Guidelines for applying the bars to asylum known internationally as the “exclusion...
Cyrus D. Mehta and Kaitlyn Box, May 14, 2024 "In “What if the Job Has Changed Since the Labor Certification Was Approved Many Years Ag o” we discussed strategies for noncitizen workers...
USA v. Safe-Air of Illinois, Mar. 11, 2016- "The U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE or the government) filed a complaint in three counts with the Office of the Chief Administrative Hearing Officer (OCAHO) on January 14, 2015, alleging that Safe-Air of Illinois (Safe-Air or the company) engaged in thirty-nine violations of the employment eligibility verification provisions of 8 U.S.C. § 1324a(b) and 8 C.F.R. § 274a.2(b). The government seeks civil money penalties of $34,969. ... Here, the company is small, there is no suggestion of bad faith, nor is there any history of previous violations. These factors weigh in favor of leniency. I consider as well the company’s financial situation, and conclude in light of the record as a whole and the statutory factors in particular, that the proposed assessment is unduly harsh. It will accordingly be adjusted as a matter of discretion to a result closer to the mid-range of permissible penalties. For the two violations in Count I involving failure to prepare I-9s, the penalties will be set at $550 for each violation. For the thirty violations in Count II, the penalties will be $450 for each violation. Because the seven violations in Count III involved unauthorized workers, the penalties for those violations will be $550 each. The overall total is $18,450."