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...
Ben Winograd writes: "In this unpublished decision, the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) held that a charge of deportability under INA 237(a)(2)(A)(ii) based on convictions for two crimes involving moral turpitude cannot be sustained if a waiver under former section 212(c) is granted with respect to one of the convictions. The Board distinguished Matter of Balderas, 20 I&N Dec. 389 (BIA 1991), which held that a 212(c) waiver does not immunize a respondent who subsequently reoffends from the initiation of new removal proceedings based on the prior conviction." - Matter of Romero, June 10, 2014, unpub.
[Hats off to Kara Hartzler!]