NILA, Sept. 25, 2024 "Increasingly, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and other immigration agencies are challenging venue in U.S. district court lawsuits brought by noncitizens and/or their employers under the Administrative Procedure Act...
NIPNLG Practice Advisory, May 28, 2024 "The purpose of this guide is to provide practitioners with a comprehensive resource for representing adult clients detained by DHS in immigration court bond proceedings. The guide covers the following topics: ...
NILA, Mar. 28, 2024 "On March 19, 2024, the Supreme Court issued its opinion in Wilkinson v. Garland, No. 22-666, 601 U.S. __, 2024 WL 1160995 (2024). The decision holds that the application of the statutory hardship standard for cancellation of removal...
American Immigration Council and the Federal Immigration Litigation Clinic of the James H. Binger Center for New Americans, University of Minnesota Law School, Nov. 28, 2023 "This practice advisory describes some of the common tools of statutory construction...
NIPNLG, Sept. 15, 2023 "This practice advisory describes the Biden administration’s current prosecutorial discretion policy in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision and provides tips for practitioners advocating with DHS for prosecutorial...
NIPNLG, Aug. 18, 2023 " This practice advisory , authored by the National Immigration Project and the Center for Gender and Refugee Studies, offers a comprehensive review of strategies for reopening cases that were denied under the Migrant Protection Protocols...
NIPNLG, July 2023 "Individuals seeking to reopen their immigration proceedings after departing or being removed from the United States face significant hurdles, including the potential application of the regulatory post-departure bar. This updated practice...
NILA, May 16, 2023 "On May 11, 2023, the Supreme Court, in Santos-Zacaria v. Garland, 598 U. S. _, _ S. Ct. _, [2023 U.S. LEXIS 1891], 2023 WL 3356525 (2023), addressed 8 U.S.C. § 1252(d), the statutory exhaustion provision governing immigration petitions...
NILA, May 8, 2023 "This advisory addresses lawsuits in federal district court seeking to compel USCIS and/or DOS to complete processing of delayed adjudications of Form I-730 refugee follow-to-join petitions."
NILA, Apr. 20, 2023 "Enacted in 1997, expedited removal is the name for the summary removal process applied to persons whom immigration border officers determine are inadmissible for allegedly having false or improper documentation. Expedited removal proceedings...
NIPNLG, July 19, 2022 "...The newly published OIL remand guidance reinforces the important role that remand can play in achieving a desirable outcome for individuals with pending PFRs. Practitioners litigating PFRs on behalf of noncitizen clients should...
NIPNLG, ILRC, June 24, 2022 "This practice advisory discusses motion to reopen strategies for noncitizens who have successfully obtained qualifying post-conviction relief." Copyright 2022, National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild...
NILA, AIC PRACTICE ADVISORY, September 22, 2021 "The Administrative Procedure Act (APA) is a federal statute that regulates federal agency action in a number of ways. Relevant here, the judicial review provisions of the APA, 5 U.S.C. § 701, et seq., provide...
CLINIC, Dec. 6, 2018 - "This practice advisory provides practitioners guidance on Matter of L-A-B-R-, a decision issued on August 16, 2018. In L-A-B-R- , former Attorney General Jeff Session addressed the factors that an IJ must consider when a respondent...
Mary Kenney, AIC, Sept. 11, 2017 - "Two courts of appeals have held that a grant of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) may make an individual eligible for adjustment of status. In Ramirez v. Brown, 852 F.3d 954 (9th Cir. 2017), and Flores v. USCIS, 718 F.3d...