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
State Department, Aug. 27, 2024 - Annual Limit Reached in the EB-1 Category State Department, Aug. 29, 2024 - Annual Limit Reached in the EB-4 Category
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...
"Because the IJ did not determine whether, at the time that Yousif submitted his application, contemporary conditions in Iraq were so dangerous for Chaldean Christians that Yousif would have been eligible for asylum based solely upon his religion, the IJ failed to determine whether Yousif’s misrepresentations were material to his application when they were made. We therefore grant the petition, vacate the Board’s decision, and remand for further proceedings.
... In view of the text of § 1158(d)(6) and the drastic consequences of the IJ’s frivolousness finding, we require a reasoned explanation from the Board for affirming the IJ’s ruling. On the current state of the record, it is clear that the IJ failed properly to determine whether Yousif’s false statements were material to his application at the time that it was made. We therefore remand to the Board with instructions to reconsider and clarify its frivolousness finding, explaining whether and how the text of § 1158(d)(6) and its implementing regulations apply to Yousif’s atypical circumstances." - Yousif v. Lynch, Aug. 7, 2015.
[Hats off to Marshal Hyman and Russell Abrutyn!]