White House, Sept. 30, 2024 "MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE SUBJECT: Presidential Determination on Refugee Admissions for Fiscal Year 2025 By the authority vested in me as President by the...
BIB Daily presents bimonthly PERM practice tips from Ron Wada , member of the Editorial Board for Bender’s Immigration Bulletin and author of the 10+ year series of BALCA review articles, “Shaping...
Texas v. Mayorkas "In September 2022, after a notice-and-comment period, the Biden administration promulgated a new Rule redefining the term ["public charge"]. In response, the State of...
White House, Sept. 30, 2024 "...I have now concluded that in order to better achieve Proclamation 10773’s goal of enhancing our ability to address historic levels of migration and more efficiently...
This document is scheduled to be published in the Federal Register on 10/01/2024 "This public notice provides information on how to apply for the DV-2026 Program and is issued pursuant to the Immigration...
"Respondent has established that Guatemalan women who are unable to leave a common law relationship is a particular social group. ... Considering these actions in context with the fact that most such violence in Guatemala is motivated by gender, the Court finds that the Respondent has demonstrated that her being a Guatemalan woman who is unable to leave her common law relationship is at least one central reason for Mr. Z's actions against her. ... The evidence demonstrates that Guatemala is unable or unwilling to protect the Respondent from Mr. Z. Thus, the Court finds that the Respondent has established that she has suffered past persecution at the hands of an actor that the government of Guatemala is unable or unwilling to control because seeking government protection would be futile. Therefore, the Respondent is entitled to the rebuttable presumption that she has a well-founded fear of future persecution ... conditions render relocation within Guatemala unreasonable for the Respondent." - Matter of X-, Feb. 24, 2014. [Hats off to Jennifer Peyton!]