DOS, July 15, 2024 " On June 18, 2024, the Biden-Harris Administration announced actions to more efficiently process employment-based nonimmigrant visas for those who have graduated from college...
Cyrus D. Mehta and Jessica Paszko, July 13, 2024 "Portability under Section 204(j) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) allows certain employment-based green card applicants to change jobs...
This document is scheduled to be published in the Federal Register on 07/12/2024 "The Department of State (the Department) publishes a final rule revising the Code of Federal Regulations to amend...
Visa Bulletin for August 2024
Azumah v. USCIS - Vacated and remanded by published opinion. Judge Harris wrote the opinion, in which Judge Thacker joined. Judge Richardson wrote a separate opinion concurring in part and concurring in...
Matter of H. Estrada, 26 I&N Dec. 749 (BIA 2016) - "Considering the totality of the evidence, we agree with the Immigration Judge that the DHS has established the domestic nature of the respondent’s offense by clear and convincing evidence and that the respondent is therefore removable under section 237(a)(2)(E)(i) based on his conviction for a crime of domestic violence. ... We [also] conclude that the respondent’s simple battery conviction is not for an aggravated felony within the meaning of section 101(a)(43)(F) of the Act because he was not sentenced to a term of imprisonment of at least 1 year. Consequently, the conviction does not support a finding that the respondent is removable under section 237(a)(2)(A)(iii) of the Act or that he is statutorily ineligible for cancellation of removal pursuant to section 240A(a)(3) of the Act. Accordingly, the appeal will be sustained with respect to the Immigration Judge’s finding that the respondent is removable under section 237(a)(2)(A)(iii) of the Act as an alien convicted of an aggravated felony. The respondent’s appeal will be dismissed with respect to his removability under section 237(a)(2)(E)(i) as an alien convicted of a crime of domestic violence. The record will be remanded to give the respondent an opportunity to seek relief from removal."
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