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...
Espinoza v. Pompeo
"Plaintiff Roberto J. Espinoza (“Plaintiff”) brings this suit based on the U.S. Department of State’s denial of his application for a U.S. passport. After careful consideration, the Court finds that judgment should be entered in favor of Plaintiff and issues its findings of fact and conclusions of law pursuant to Rule 52(a). ... [D]espite the contemporaneous foreign birth certificate and the delayed Texas birth certificate, based on the entirety of the evidence, the Court concludes that Plaintiff has rebutted the presumption of alienage and satisfied his burden of establishing, by a preponderance of the evidence, that he is a citizen of the United States by birth. ... Based on the foregoing, the Court concludes that Plaintiff Roberto J. Espinoza has satisfied his burden of proof by a preponderance of the evidence. He is a citizen by virtue of birth. On the record before the Court, he is entitled to a United States passport."
[Hats off to Javier Maldonado!]