DOJ Eliminates Trump-era Case Quotas for Immigration Judges
Justice Department is ending the use of case quotas for immigration judges that became a point of contention during the Trump administration for undercutting judges’…
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EOIR Announces Appointment of 24 New Immigration Judges
EOIR announced the appointment of 24 new immigration judges, including four Assistant Chief Immigration Judges and two Unit Chief Immigration Judges. The memo provides a…
USCIS Will Now Provide Self-Service Kiosks for BIA and EOIR Payments
USCIS announced that, as of June 2021, it will allow attorneys and accredited representatives to use self-service kiosks in USCIS field offices to pay the…
EOIR Announces 17 New Immigration Judges
EOIR announced 17 new immigration judges, including one assistant chief immigration judge and six unit chief immigration judges. The notice provides the judges’ names, courts of appointment, and…
EOIR rescinds policy memo on case processing at the BIA.
EOIR issued a policy memo rescinding and cancelling Policy Memo 20-01, Case Processing at the Board of Immigration Appeals. Policy Memo 20-01 originally provided guidance…
EOIR announces new privacy waiver and records release form.
EOIR announced the released of Form EOIR-59, Certification and Release of Records. The form enables current and former respondents who have or had business before…
EOIR Final Rule Making Major Changes to BIA Procedures Enjoined by District Court
EOIR final rule, Appellate Procedures and Decisional Finality in Immigration Proceedings; Administrative Closure, which made dramatic changes to immigration appeals procedures. Earlier this month, a district court…
USCIS and EOIR Further Delay Effective Date of Final Rule on Pandemic-Related Security Bars to Asylum and Withholding of Removal
USCIS and EOIR further delayed until December 31, 2021, the effective date of the final rule “Security Bars and Processing,” originally published on December 23, 2020. Public comment is…
District Court Preliminarily Enjoins EOIR Rule on Appellate Procedures and Decisional Finality in Immigration Proceedings
A district court granted a motion for preliminary injunction and enjoined nationwide implementation of EOIR’s December 16, 2020, final rule that made drastic changes to the procedures and regulations…
EOIR Releases Policy Memo on Adjudicator Independence and Impartiality
EOIR issued a policy memo (PM 21-15) reiterating and memorializing EOIR’s policy regarding adjudicator independence and impartiality. The memo notes that it remains EOIR policy that adjudicator…
District Court Halts Most of EOIR Filing Fee Rule from Going into Effect
A district court judge issued a nationwide stay of the effective date of the December 18, 2020, EOIR final fee rule and a preliminary injunction to…
Immigration Lawyers Worry In-Person Appearances at Eloy Court Will Increase COVID-19 Risk
The Arizona Republic reports that immigration lawyers are upset over a recent decision that forces a return to appear in person for hearings at the Eloy Immigration Court in Eloy, Arizona, amid a rising number of COVID-19 cases in Arizona. The development comes as nearly two dozen immigration courts across the country have had to close in recent weeks after possible exposure to COVID-19, including the immigration courts in Tucson and Phoenix, Arizona. AILA Arizona Chapter Chair Olivia Porter says that, at Eloy, “the courtrooms are very small and very confined,” which makes it “impossible to maintain six feet between every single person who is going to be in that room at the same time.”