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...
Scripps College v. Jaddou
"At issue is whether the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (“USCIS”) properly denied Plaintiff’s I-140 immigration petition by finding the beneficiary of the petition did not qualify for an employment-based first-preference visa as an “outstanding professor or researcher” pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1153(b)(1)(B). ... Scripps argues that the USCIS’s denial of its I-140 petition must be reversed because it made internally inconsistent findings, imposed novel evidentiary requirements, disregarded relevant factors, and is not supported by substantial evidence. ... As explained below, the Court concludes that USCIS’s decision was arbitrary and capricious, an abuse of discretion, and contrary to the law; therefore, the Court grants Scripps’s motion for summary judgment and denies USCIS’s motion for summary judgment."
[Hats off to superlitigator Jesse Bless!]