Muzaffar Chishti, Jessica Bolter, Migration Policy Institute, Jan. 31, 2019 "... The travel ban and related policies have thus significantly reshaped the entire refugee program. Possible Future Developments One of the reasons the Supreme Court upheld...
Cornell Law Prof. Steve Yale-Loehr writes: "Krsna Avila and Yanet Cordero, two of our students in the Cornell asylum appeals clinic, just won a remand from the BIA in a case involving religious persecution in Benin. The case involved a man who converted from...
Matter of I-S-O-A-, Inc., ID# 13560 (AAO Mar. 9, 2016) - "[N]otwithstanding the regulation at 8 C.F.R. 204.5(m)(4) and (11) as currently written, in accordance with the Policy Memorandum, we find that the Petitioner has established that the Beneficiary had...
"On April 7, 2015, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, in Shalom Pentecostal Church v. Acting Secretary DHS, 783 F.3d 156 (3d Cir. 2015), found the regulatory requirements that qualifying work experience gained in the United States must have been...
"The Third Circuit on Tuesday upheld a New Jersey federal judge's order striking down a regulation by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service requiring religious worker visa applicants to be performing such work only while legally authorized, saying...
"The precise question presented in this case is whether the statute that Congress enacted, which defines the class of immigrants who are eligible for a special immigrant religious worker visa, excludes individuals seeking to qualify based on work performed...
"It’s not always enough to say that you did something. Sometimes, you have to show it as well. Or at least you have to not do something else that may raise a question as to whether you did what you said you did. In this petition, the Board of Immigration...
"U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) invites you to participate in a stakeholder teleconference with the California and Vermont Service Centers on Thursday, October 9, 2014, from 11 a.m. -12:30 p.m. (Eastern). Please note that this engagement...
"Because the Regulation is ultra vires, Plaintiffs’ motion for summary judgment is GRANTED to the extent it seeks to strike 8 C.F.R. §§ 204.5(m)(4) and (11). ... Here, Defendants’ sole basis for denial of the petition was the Regulation, which this Court has...
"[T]he only question presented on appeal is whether the record compels the conclusion that Shi suffered past persecution when his church service was broken up, his family’s bibles were confiscated, and he was detained for seven days, slapped, thrown to the...
"The AAO agrees with counsel's argument. Unlike the definition of a religious occupation under 8 C.F.R. § 204.5(m)(5), the definition of religious vocation includes no requirements regarding the qualifying nature of the beneficiary's duties or the...
"On Friday, September 28, 2012, the President signed into law S. 3245, which extends to September 30, 2015, the expiration dates of key requirements of four immigration programs administered by the Department of Homeland Security: the EB-5 Regional Center...
Procedures for Calculating the Maximum Period of Stay for R-1 Nonimmigrants: "This memorandum provides instruction to Immigration Service Officers who adjudicate R-1 nonimmigrant petitions for aliens who are coming to the United States temporarily to perform...