Matter of Panin - A respondent’s release from Federal pretrial criminal custody does not preclude an Immigration Judge from denying a respondent’s request for release from immigration detention under section 236(a) of the Immigration and Nationality...
Alcarez-Rodriguez v. Garland "Ashley Rodriguez, a native and citizen of Mexico, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’s (BIA’s) decision and order denying her motion to remand her removal proceedings to the Immigration Judge...
EOIR provided these slides in response to my FOIA request.
The Border Chronicle, Sept. 14, 2023 "In July the Board of Immigration Appeals ordered that prominent federal immigration lawyer and longtime community organizer Margo Cowan be barred for two years from practicing law in immigration court for “violating...
This document is scheduled to be published in the Federal Register on 09/08/2023 "In December 2020, the Department of Justice issued a final rule (the “AA96 Final Rule”) establishing novel limits on the authority of immigration judges and the...
EOIR, Aug. 14, 2023 "The Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) today announced the appointment of Katharine E. Clark as a Board Member of EOIR’s Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA). The BIA is the highest administrative body for interpreting...
Matter of J-G-R- (1) Torturous conduct committed by a public official who is “acting in an official capacity,” meaning acting under color of law, is covered by the regulations implementing the Convention Against Torture, but such conduct by an official...
EOIR, Aug. 1, 2023 "The Board of Immigration Appeals welcomes interested members of the public to file amicus curiae briefs discussing the below issue(s): ISSUE(S) PRESENTED: Pursuant to Matter of Fernandes, 28 I&N Dec. 605 (BIA 2022): 1. Should an Immigration...
Prof. Steve Yale-Loehr reports: "Thanks to the excellent work of our law students, our Cornell asylum clinic received three BIA remands this spring. A short summary of each case follows. ... If anyone wants redacted copies of our briefs, have them contact...
MPI, July 20, 2023 By Muzaffar Chishti, Doris Meissner, Stephen Yale-Loehr, Kathleen Bush-Joseph and Christopher Levesque "With a backlog of nearly 2 million cases, the U.S. immigration court system is in crisis. Many cases now take years to adjudicate...
MPI "When: Thursday, July 20, 2023 11:00 a.m. EDT (New York, DC) / 10:00 a.m. CDT (Chicago) / 9 a.m. MDT (Boise) / 8 a.m. PDT (Seattle) Speakers: Jojo Annobil , Executive Director, Immigrant Justice Corps Muzaffar Chishti...
DOJ, July 18, 2023 "The Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) seeks highly-qualified individuals to join our team of expert professionals in becoming a part of our challenging and rewarding Agency. The primary mission of the EOIR is to adjudicate...
Ramírez Muñoz v. Garland "We must decide whether Ramírez’s conduct—lying to local authorities about U.S. citizenship—was for a “purpose or benefit under” a particular law. The BIA, relying on its Richmond...
EOIR, June 23, 2023 "The Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) at the Department of Justice (DOJ) is seeking a highly-qualified individual to join our team of expert professionals who serve as Appellate Immigration Judges. This is an Excepted Service...
USCIS, May 4, 2023 "We now are affirmatively creating and providing documented evidence of their status to certain new asylees and lawful permanent residents upon our receiving notification that an immigration judge or the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA...