EOIR is posting this ad for "many vacancies" in unspecified locations. Open & closing dates: 08/30/2024 to 09/13/2024 Salary: $156,924 - $204,000 per year
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David L. Cleveland, Aug. 29, 2024 "In response to a FOIA request and lawsuit by the Louise Trauma Center, USCIS released 70 pages of Ecuador country conditions, given to asylum officers. This article...
Dominguez Ojeda v. Garland "The only question before us is whether the IJ committed legal error by failing to exercise discretion and, instead, automatically refusing to consider Dominguez Ojeda’s...
OFLC, Aug. 28, 2024 " The Department of Labor’s Office of Foreign Labor Certification Announces Delay in Transition Schedule for Implementing the H-2A Application and Job Order Associated...
Official Headnotes:
(1) Where an Immigration Judge finds that an applicant for asylum or withholding of removal has not provided reasonably available corroborating evidence to establish his claim, the Immigration Judge should first consider the applicant’s explanations for the absence of such evidence and, if a continuance is requested, determinewhether there is good cause to continue the proceedings for the applicant to obtain the evidence.
(2) Although an Immigration Judge should consider an applicant’s explanation for the absence of corroborating evidence, section 208(b)(1)(B)(ii) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C. § 1158(b)(1)(B)(ii) (2012), does not require the Immigration Judge to identify the specific evidence necessary to meet the applicant’s burden of proof and to provide an automatic continuance for the applicant to obtain that evidence prior to rendering a decision on the application.
- Matter of L-A-C-, 26 I&N Dec. 516 (BIA 2015)