Practice Advisory for Immigration Advocates: The Biden Administration's Final Enforcement Priorities
This practice advisory provides an overview of the final priorities. The Memo also suggests ways for practitioners to utilize the Mayorkas Memo and its lack of bright-line rules to craft persuasive arguments to protect their clients from harmful...
In Matter of Laparra, 28 I&N Dec. 425 (BIA 2022), the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA)
rejected notice-based arguments for rescinding and reopening an in absentia order when the government serves the respondent with a Notice to Appear (NTA) lacking...
This practice alert describes how some members of another certified class – of certain asylum seekers with prior “unaccompanied alien child” determinations, certified in J.O.P. v. DHS, 338 F.R.D. 33 (D. Md. Dec. 21, 2020) – may also be Mendez Rojas...
On Friday, June 10, 2022, Judge Andrew Tipton of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas issued final judgment in Texas v. United States, No. 6:21-cv-0016, a lawsuit brought by Texas and Louisiana to challenge the Biden...
This practice advisory discusses motion to reopen strategies for noncitizens who have successfully obtained qualifying post-conviction relief. Section II distinguishes among motions to reopen, motions to remand, motions to reconsider, and motions to...
This FAQ will explain the status of prosecutorial discretion and what it might mean for immigrants ahead of the Supreme Court’s June 2023 decision on the matter.
This practice advisory provides an overview of how to effectively gather criminal records for immigration matters. The advisory briefly reviews considerations for conducting a criminal contacts screening and for evaluating the possible implications...
This template is intended for practitioners who represent a client who has been ordered removed in absentia and is requesting prosecutorial discretion following the vacatur of DHS’s immigration enforcement priorities set out in the Mayorkas and Doyle...
This template is intended for practitioners who represent a client who has been ordered removed following a hearing at which there were due process concerns and requests prosecutorial discretion following the vacatur of DHS’s immigration enforcement...
The Asylum Processing Rule is a significant regulatory change under the Biden administration that allows Asylum Officers to conduct Asylum Merits Interviews of certain asylum seekers who have passed credible fear interviews rather than having those...