This document is scheduled to be published in the Federal Register on 05/08/2024 "This final rule makes several clarifications and updates the definitions currently used to determine whether a consumer...
TRAC, Apr. 2024 "At the end of March 2024, 3,524,051 active cases were pending before the Immigration Court."
Sanchez-Perez v. Garland "One day after he pleaded guilty to violating a Tennessee domestic-violence law, the federal government initiated removal proceedings against Jose Yanel Sanchez-Perez. Ultimately...
In a letter dated April 12, 2024 the State Department and USCIS discuss "concerns about biometrics collection for applicants for T nonimmigrant status and petitioners for U nonimmigrant status abroad...
Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 84 / Tuesday, April 30, 2024 "This final rule adopts and replaces regulations relating to key aspects of the placement, care, and services provided to unaccompanied...
Prof. Alizabeth Newman at the Immigrant & Refugee Rights Clinic, CUNY School of Law, writes: "Attached is a holiday surprise from the BIA that might be of interest to others.
- Reversing IJ on the one yr. asylum bar finding extraordinary circumstances due to PTSD (entry 1984-filed 2008). They did not directly address (but seemed to have accepted) the reasonableness argument of not filing asylum immediately with the US government who was supporting the Pinochet regime that perpetrated the persecution.
- Affirming IJ on no terrorist bar- supporting IJ finding that government evidence was "vague" (labeled org. ["Movement of the Revolutionary Left" or "MIR"] without specifying terrorist activities) and contained "minimal source citation" and therefore insufficient to support allegations that org. was Tier III terrorist org. Also affirmed IJ's analysis of distinguishing dates of Respondent's individual involvement in org. from dates organization was designated a terrorist org.
- Granting remand on ineffective assistance finding substantial compliance with Lozada with attorney affidavit in lieu of complaint to disciplinary authorities." - Matter of V-T-, Dec. 12, 2012, unpub.