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 advisory...
Recognizing the challenges that pro se noncitizens face in navigating options for resolving petitions for review (PFRs) through negotiations with government attorneys from the Department of Justice’s Office of Immigration Litigation (OIL), OIL has...
On June 23, 2023, the Supreme Court issued a favorable decision in United States v. Texas, 599 U.S. (2023), a case brought by Texas and Louisiana challenging the Biden administration’s immigration enforcement priorities. The Court held that the...
This practice alert offers strategies for practitioners representing special immigrant juveniles who received removal orders because they lacked an available visa, and whose “final action date”—the date that determines when they have a visa available...
The Biden Administration recently announced an Asylum Ban for those seeking asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border who have not followed limited “legal pathways” or sought, and been denied, asylum in a third country en route to the border. This Practice...
Few are aware that Congress provided a statutory remedies in 8 U.S.C. § 1229(e)2 that may enable an individual who the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) arrests at certain protected locations to terminate removal proceedings. At a time when DHS...
Over the past two years, federal defenders have begun challenging the laws that criminalize crossing the border — 8 U.S.C. § 1325 and 8 USC § 1326 — on the grounds that the law is racist, and therefore unconstitutional. Recently, in a case called...
On March 22, 2023, the U.S. Department of State (“State Department”) released the April 2023 Visa Bulletin, in which it announced significant changes to the way certain employment-based visas are allocated. Because children granted Special Immigrant...
This practice pointer provides a background on Castillo-Perez, explains the good moral character requirement of non-LPR cancellation, and clarifies the practical implications of the decision. The practice pointer also suggests arguments limiting the...
Historically, denaturalization was pursued by the U.S. government in very small numbers, averaging only eleven cases per year between 1990 and 2017.2 However, under the Trump administration there has been a dramatic increase in the number of...