Pace University, July 19, 2024 "Professor Merton began her legal education career at New York University School of Law, and was a founding faculty member of CUNY Law School, and a Mellon and National...
DHS, July 19, 2024 "Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas today announced the extension and redesignation of Somalia for Temporary Protected Status for 18 months, from September 18...
USCIS, July 18, 2024 "The Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) provides that U.S. citizens may transmit citizenship to their children born outside of the United States in certain circumstances...
Paye v. Garland "The BIA and IJ (collectively, "the agency") did not address whether Paye's escape from Liberia because of systematic ethnic cleansing and genocide of the Krahn people...
We are still waiting for the official Federal Register notice, but on July 17, 2024 the White House issued a Fact Sheet including this statement: "On June 18th, the President announced a new process...
"Respondent has demonstrated that she is a member of the particular social group consisting of "women in EI Salvador" and that the persecution she fears is on account of her membership in that group. ... Respondent has a well-founded fear of future persecution on account of her membership in a particular social group. ... Respondent's application for asylum under section 208(a) of the Act should be and hereby is GRANTED." - Matter of X-, Nov. 7, 2012, San Francisco. [Hats off to Heliodoro Moreno Jr.!]