Farhane v. US "Over a decade ago, the Supreme Court ruled that the Sixth Amendment requires criminal defense counsel to advise her client whether a guilty plea carries a risk of deportation. Today...
OFLC, Oct. 29, 2024 "Pursuant to 20 CFR 655.154(d), the Office of Foreign Labor Certification (OFLC) Administrator announces the annual determination of labor supply states (LSS). LSS are additional...
Cyrus D. Mehta, Kaitlyn Box, Oct. 29, 2024 "In a previous blog , we analyzed Matter of Arrabally and Yerrabelly , 25 I&N Dec. 771 (BIA 2012), a seminal Board of Immigration Appeals case which...
Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 207 / Friday, October 25, 2024 "The Department of Homeland Security (DHS or the Department), U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is issuing this document...
Francois v. Garland "Petitioner Alex Francois appeals the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA)’s decision dismissing his appeal of the Immigration Judge (IJ)’s order denying withholding...
Carrie Pastor Cardinale writes: "I am attaching a BIA opinion on a case in which the my client was detained because the IJ denied bail due to his mental illness. The IJ felt that the client's mental illness made him a security threat regardless of the fact that my client had no criminal convictions. (The one conviction he had was for domestic violence. He pled guilty but the case was reopened and dismissed because the state court judge realized it was due to his mental illness and no one had been seriously injured.) In the interim, the client applied for and received TPS but ICE Office of Chief Counsel refused to release my client. Fortunately, soon thereafter, the BIA granted the appeal and my client was released after 8 months of ICE detention."
[Hats off to Carrie Pastor Cardinale!]