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...
Prof. Geoffrey A. Hoffman writes: "This case [Matter of X-, June 12, 2017, unpub.] is significant because the respondent had been deported about 9 years ago unfairly as an alleged aggravated felon due to minor controlled substance convictions. Two years after his removal, in 2010, the Supreme Court ruled in Carachuri-Rosendo v. Holder that the respondent's convictions were not a proper basis for a deportation based on an aggravated felony. The motion to reopen was granted because the respondent was able to show misadvice from prior attorneys and argued equitable tolling, as well as the fact that the immigration judge had been inclined to grant cancellation in the exercise of discretion but for the (now erroneous) aggravated felony determination. A supreme effort by The Modi Law Firm!"