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...
"Our ground for setting aside that ruling is not that the administrative law judge erred in finding that Lopez‐Esparza had failed to carry his burden of proof, but that the judge applied the wrong standard—the standard, of his invention, that imperfect recollection precludes a finding of continuous residence. That was a legal error. Perfect recollection isn’t part of the burden of proving continuous residence, and it couldn’t be because it would be inconsistent with the preponderance standard. 8 C.F.R. § 1240.8(d). A witness‘s testimony may reveal a bad memory without necessarily vitiating his testimony and so preventing him from carrying his burden of proof. The order of the Board of Immigration Appeals is vacated and the case remanded to the Board." - Lopez-Esparza v. Holder, Oct. 23, 2014. [Hats off to Isuf Kola!]