USCIS, Sept. 25, 2024 "Policy Highlights • Clarifies that USCIS calculates the CSPA age of an applicant who established extraordinary circumstances and is excused from the sought to acquire...
NILA, Sept. 25, 2024 "Increasingly, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and other immigration agencies are challenging venue in U.S. district court lawsuits brought by noncitizens...
This document is scheduled to be published in the Federal Register on 09/26/2024 "Eligible citizens, nationals, and passport holders from designated Visa Waiver Program countries may apply for admission...
Mazariegos-Rodas v. Garland "Beky Izamar Mazariegos-Rodas and Engly Yeraicy Mazariegos-Rodas (collectively, the Petitioners) are two sisters who are natives and citizens of Guatemala. The Petitioners...
Cyrus Mehta, Sept. 23, 2024 "When the Administrative Appeals Office (AAO) designated Matter of Z-A- Inc . as an “Adopted Decision” in 2016 it was seen as a breakthrough as it recognized...
Prof. Geoffrey A. Hoffman writes: "This is a new and interesting published decision in which your readers may be interested. The panel came down 2-1. Remand with instructions to consider asylum relating to Hague Convention proceedings - this is an issue of first impression. Professor Lee Teran at St. Mary's represented the minor children and then we at the University of Houston stepped in on appeal as co-counsel, as well attorneys at the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP. The firm’s attorney, Nick Grimmer, argued the case. In addition, U.C. Hastings School of Law Center for Gender & Refugee Studies (represented by Latham & Watkins LLP) and Kids in Need of Defense (represented by Baker & McKenzie LLP) also appeared as amici on the appeal."