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...
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"We hold that _presumptively_ the persecutor bar should be read not to apply to Castañeda if his version of his state of mind is accepted. On remand the agency can, if it wants, try to develop a construction more favorable to the government. ... The decision of the IJ and the Board excluding Castañeda from asylum and/or withholding of removal under the persecutor bar is vacated and the matter is remanded for further proceedings consistent with this opinion." Castañeda-Castillo v. Gonzales, May 23, 2007. Hats off to: William P. Joyce with whom Joyce & Associates, P.C. was on brief for petitioners; Beth Werlin, The American Immigration Law Foundation, on supplemental brief for The American Immigration Law Foundation, Greater Boston Legal Services, and Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic, Amici Curiae; Jeanette Kain, Harvey Kaplan, Maureen O'Sullivan, Jeremiah Friedman and Ilana Greenstein on brief for National Immigration Project, Amicus Curiae.