Visa Bulletin For January 2025
Platino-Bargas v. Garland (unpub.) "After reviewing the record, briefs of the parties, and previously filed joint motion of the Government and Petitioner to remand, we grant the motion to remand...
Bouarfa v. Mayorkas (9-0) "JUSTICE JACKSON delivered the opinion of the Court. A common feature of our Nation’s complex system of lawful immigration is mandatory statutory rules paired with...
Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 237 / Tuesday, December 10, 2024 "This final rule makes updates to reflect a statutory change to the class of individuals who may qualify for Special Immigrant Visas...
USCIS, Dec. 10, 2024 "The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced a final rule that will support U.S. employers, foster economic growth, and improve access to employment authorization documents...
TRAC, Nov. 25, 2024
"Wide differences in Immigration Judge asylum denial rates are evident across many Courts in the latest release of TRAC’s Immigration Judge report series. These new reports update each judge’s asylum decisions over the past six years through September 2024. The series includes 823 individual judge reports covering each of the 66 current Immigration Courts.[1] Where these judges were based is shown in Figure 1. Each of the latest individual judge reports is available here. In this updated series, the widest difference between asylum denial rates was found in the San Francisco Immigration Court. See Figure 2.[2] There the range between the judge with the highest denial rate (91.6%) and the lowest denial rate (1.3%) was over 90 percentage points. The New York Immigration Court was right behind with a range of 89 percentage points, followed by the Arlington and Sacramento Immigration Courts each with a range of 86 percentage points. Two additional Immigration Courts had ranges of 80 percentage points or higher. These were the Newark Immigration Court (range of 83) and the Boston Immigration Court (range of 80). For other Courts, see Denial Rates table. ..."