Posted on July 1, 2019 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
The Fourth Circuit vacated the denial of the petitioner’s asylum and withholding of removal claims, reversed the BIA’s determination that the petitioner had failed to establish the required nexus between her persecution and her proposed protected statuses—that is, her membership in the particular social group of unmarried mothers living under the control of gangs in Honduras and her imputed political opinion—and remanded.
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Posted on July 1, 2019 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
On May 31, 2019, new questions were added to Form DS-160/DS-156, Nonimmigrant Visa Application, and Form DS-260, Immigrant Visa Application.
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Posted on July 1, 2019 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
USCIS announced the latest phase in the expansion of its FOIA Immigration Records System (FIRST). USCIS online account holders may now submit FOIA requests online for their own records and will soon be able to submit online requests for non-A-File material.
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Posted on July 1, 2019 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
Two amicus briefs were filed yesterday in Innovation Law Lab v. McAleenan, a case challenging the administration’s Migrant Protection Protocols (MPPs), commonly known as the Remain in Mexico policy. Local 1924 of the American Federation of Government Employees, which represents over 2,500 bargaining unit employees of USCIS, submitted an amicus brief arguing that the MPPs don’t streamline processes, but rather make the system less efficient. In a separate amicus brief, former immigration, national security, foreign policy, and other public officials stated that “the government’s purported justifications for the MPP[s] do not pass muster.”
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Posted on July 1, 2019 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
CNBC reports that the Supreme Court announced that it will hear arguments over the legality of the Trump administration’s decision to terminate DACA.
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Posted on July 1, 2019 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
The House passed the Senate-approved border supplemental spending bill, which included significant additional funding for ICE and CBP to house, transport, and provide for the care of migrant detainees, as well as funds to enable the HHS to care for the large numbers of unaccompanied children, among other provisions.
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Posted on June 27, 2019 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
Public and political outrage over the horrific conditions in which children were being held at a Clint, TX, Border Patrol facility prompted immigration officials to remove about 250 children from the facility, 100 of the children were then abruptly sent back. Clara Long of Human Rights Watch said, “CBP custody is inappropriate and abusive for children,” and that children shouldn’t be kept at any of the more than 70 facilities along the border.
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Posted on June 27, 2019 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
USCIS announced the latest phase in the expansion of its FOIA Immigration Records System (FIRST). USCIS online account holders may now submit FOIA requests online for their own records and will soon be able to submit online requests for non-A-File material.
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Posted on June 3, 2019 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
CBS News reports that a government official confirmed a previously unreported death of a 10-year-old girl from El Salvador while she was in the care of an Office of Refugee Resettlement facility last year. She was the first of six migrant children to die in U.S. custody — or soon after being released — in the past eight months.
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Posted on June 3, 2019 by Brian D. Lerner, Immigration Lawyer & Deportation Attorney
The Ninth Circuit concluded that the petitioner’s felony conviction for Possession of Marijuana for Sale under California Health & Safety Code §11359 rendered the petitioner removable, even though the conviction had been recalled and reclassified as a misdemeanor under California’s Proposition 64. The court explained that valid state convictions retain their immigration consequences even when modified or expunged for reasons of state public policy.
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