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...
"Appeal from judgment of the United States District Court for the Western District of New York (Telesca, J.). The district court denied Petitioner habeas corpus relief after finding that Petitioner did not derive citizenship from his father; the district court ruled that Petitioner was not in his father’s “legal custody” when his father naturalized. We conclude that the district court erred because it relied on an unenforceable custody award. “Legal custody” is a matter of federal law, which looks first to state law to determine whether there is an enforceable judicial determination or statutory grant of custody. If there is not, “actual uncontested custody” of the child controls. Here, there is a genuine factual dispute over which parent (if either) had “actual uncontested custody” of Petitioner when his father naturalized. Therefore, we VACATE and REMAND for a hearing under 8 U.S.C. § 1852(b)(5)(B). In addition, we instruct the district court to appoint Petitioner pro bono counsel. VACATED and REMANDED." - Garcia v. USICS (DHS), Dec. 29, 2011. [Hats way off to pro bono counsel Timothy W. Hoover and Peter C. Obersheimer!]