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...
H. Raymond Fasano writes: "Attached please find a BIA decision from December 13, 2012 that my Firm won. My partner, Rodney Youman, wrote the brief. The case is significant because the Board recognized the imputed hardship a non-qualifying relative sibling had on the sibling who was a qualifying relative. The alien sibling was suffering from leukemia. The claimed hardship on the qualifying relative was, among other things, to watch her brother suffer if the family had to relocate to Ecuador. I know of no other cases in which imputed hardship was recognized in a non-LPR cancellation of removal. Hats off to Rodney Youman."