11th Circuit Court of Appeals Concludes That Petitioner’s Federal Conviction for Making False Statements in an Immigration Application Was an Aggravated Felony The court denied the petition for review, holding…
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According to news reports, the policy of no more interpreters in immigration court was officially announced to judges on Thursday. The policy is set to begin nationwide on the week…
American Bar Association (ABA) calls on Congress to make sweeping changes in order to fix the immigration court system “on the brink of collapse.” – currently face backlogs of over…
Attorney General’s decision in Matter of L-A-B-R-, limits the discretion of the immigration judges to grant motion for continuance. In Matter of L-A-B-R- et al., 27 I&N Dec. 245 (A.G. 2018), the…
In a case (Matter of Castro-Tum, 27 I&N Dec. 271 (A.G. 2018)) he had previously referred to himself for review, the attorney general held that Immigration Judges and the Board…
In its June 21, 2018, decision, the Supreme Court reversed the First Circuit Court of Appeals. Justice Sotomayor, writing for the 8-Justice majority, began her opinion by stating what the…
The Department of Justice will be implementing a new performance metrics for immigration judges on October 1, 2018. The Justice Department official said the new metrics will require immigration judges to…
“During the first two months of FY 2018 (October-November 2017), the Immigration Court number of pending cases climbed by an additional 30,000. According to the latest case-by-case court records, the…
The New Yorker reports that U.S. immigration courts are facing a backlog of over half a million cases—and each one, on average, takes almost two years to close. Roughly three…
Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) has confirmed it is now re-calendaring or placing back on court docket immigration cases that were previously administratively closed in an exercise of prosecutorial discretion…
