US CIS Now More Active in Placing Denied Applicants in Removal Proceedings
Published July 11, 2018 Under a new policy guidance memo released by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (US CIS) earlier this month, the agency will now be taking a...
Attorney General Sessions: Domestic and Gang Violence Are Not Bases for Asylum
Published June 11, 2018 Foreign nationals are eligible to be accorded asylum status in the U.S. if they fear return to their home countries due to: a) persecution they...
New Supreme Court Ruling Opens Door to More Options in Fighting Deportation
Published June 28, 2018 In their recent ruling in Pereira V. Sessions, the U.S. Supreme Court significantly widened opportunities for certain lawful residents AND undocumented individuals to fight their...
New Rules Impacting Immigration Judges and Removal Proceedings
Published May 29, 2018 In recent weeks the Attorney General of the United States, Jeff Sessions, issued a directive limiting the powers of immigration judges to “administratively close” or otherwise delay...
Supreme Court: “Crime of Violence” Basis to Deport is Too Vague
Published April 24, 2018 Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court, in a 5 to 4 decision struck down a significant portion of a federal statute exposing foreign nationals to deportation...
Massive ICE Raid in Tennessee
Published April 9, 2018 In the past week, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents executed one of
U.S. Supreme Court to Review Mandatory Detention Provisions for Certain Criminal Immigrants
Published March 22, 2018 Federal law currently sets forth conditions under which certain non-U.S. citizens with more serious criminal records must be detained without bond while they defend against removal...
More DACA Drama
Published March 15, 2018 The processing of applications for employment authorization documents for hundreds of thousands of young adults under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, an Obama...
The Bad Lawyer and the Fake Lawyer
Published February 21, 2018 In my 25+ years as an immigration lawyer, I have seen many versions of both the bad lawyer and the fake lawyer. Each is poisonous...
The Unknown Future of DACA
Published January 1, 2018 The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals measure implemented by President Obama has come to represent an issue bigger than just the undocumented young adults it...