The purpose of this practice advisory is to assist immigration attorneys who are advising their clients regarding their decision to participate in a protest or demonstration by providing a checklist of issues to consider and address. While the...
Until Congress fixes the SIJS visa backlog, SIJS youth must wait years before a visa is available for them to seek lawful permanent residence. This resource is intended to help SIJS advocates better understand the system used by the U.S. Department...
As Congress continuously fails to pass humane immigration legislation, many noncitizens remain vulnerable to removal from the United States. While this legislative failure affects all noncitizens negatively, Congress’s failure to enact meaningful...
This Practice Advisory is an update on the FAQs NIPNLG released in October 2023. Following advocacy by NIPNLG with USCIS concerning some unclear language in its Guidance, USCIS updated its instructions on February 12, 2024. This updated Practice...
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 ("MPP")...
On December 1, 2023, the Board of Immigration Appeals issued a precedential decision, Matter of M‑R‑M‑S‑, 28 I&N Dec. 757 (BIA 2023), which purports to narrow the circumstances in which asylum seekers can prove that their membership in a family-based...
This practice advisory describes the Biden administration’s current prosecutorial discretion policy in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision in United States v. Texas, 143 S. Ct. 1964 (2023), focusing on the 2021 "Mayorkas Memo" and the 2022...
This practice advisory contains practical and legal suggestions for individuals seeking to return to the United States after they have prevailed on a petition for review or a motion to reopen or reconsider to the immigration court or Board of...
This practice alert analyzes the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Pugin v. Garland, 143 S. Ct. 1833 (2023). The June 22 opinion addressed the generic definition of the obstruction of justice aggravated felony ground at 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(43)(S)...
This practice advisory discusses the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) decision in Matter of Davey, 26 I&N Dec. 37 (BIA 2012) and its holding that the categorical approach does not apply to the “possession of 30 grams of marijuana” exception to...