17 Jun 2021

Gupta Memo to OIL re A-B-, L-E-A- Vacatur

Vanita Gupta, Associate Attorney General, June 16, 2021

"The Civil Division's Office of Immigration Litigation is responsible for defending the decisions of the Board of Immigration Appeals when they are challenged in the federal courts of appeals. Please review any pending cases that may be affected by the Attorney General's vacatur of L-E-A- II, A-B- I, and A-B- II and take appropriate steps in light of that development, including seeking remands in appropriate cases to allow the Board to reconsider asylum claims based on this change in the law."