The Dallas Morning News reports that a U.S. citizen high school student who was in custody for 23 days after being detained at a Border Patrol checkpoint was recently informed by ICE that his case has been filed in immigration court. https://cbocalbos.wordpress.com/tag/best-deportation-lawyer/ https://cbocalbos.wordpress.com/tag/deportation/ https://cbocalbos.wordpress.com/tag/best-deportation-attorney/ https://californiaimmigration.us/removal/winning-a-deportation-proceeding-from-an-immigration-lawyer-and-deportation-attorney/

few weeks ago, reports emerged that DHS had begun utilizing CBP officers to conduct credible fear interviews, but the unprecedented shift in functions remains shrouded in secrecy. The American Immigration Council and Tahirih Justice Center recently filed a FOIA lawsuit to uncover more information about this move and how it’s altering the asylum process.

The San Francisco Chronicle reports that the Trump administration has promoted six judges to the BIA — all of whom have high rates of denying immigrants’ asylum claims. “The [BIA’s] primary function is to ensure rule of law and impartiality, yet the [DOJ] cherry-picked judges from the harshest jurisdictions with the lowest asylum grant rates in the nation

The BIA issued a decision clarifying the “substantial and probative evidence” standard of proof necessary to bar the approval of a visa petition based on marriage fraud under INA §204(c).

The court held that, on the present record, the case is not moot, because whether the district court retains the authority to award relief to the plaintiffs—winners of the 2017 diversity visa lottery from countries included in Executive Order 13780’s travel ban—is a merits question, even though the statutory deadline to apply for the diversity visas has …

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The Hill reports that a 17-year-old Palestinian incoming Harvard freshmen was deported about eight hours after he arrived at Logan International Airport in Boston. The student told the Harvard Crimson that after arriving at the airport and being instructed to unlock his devices, a U.S. official told him that she found “political points of view that oppose the U.S.” …

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The Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled in Zuniga Romero v. Barr that immigration judges have the authority to administratively close cases pending before them. The court concluded that immigration law unambiguously permits immigration judges to control their own dockets.

Twelve senators sent a letter to Attorney General William Barr urging him to rescind his decision in Matter of L‑E‑A‑, which limits access to asylum for people fleeing persecution abroad because of their family ties, citing that his decision disregards decades of legal precedent.

Effective August 29, 2019, the reciprocity schedule for France will be revised for both E‑1 and E‑2 visas. According to the U.S. Embassy in Paris, this change is being made on a reciprocal basis commensurate with the treatment by the government of France afforded to U.S. citizens applying for similar visas.

EOIR has begun replacing interpreters at master calendar hearings with prerecorded video advisals. The videos have been rolled out in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Miami, and New York. The San Francisco Chronicle obtained transcripts of the separate videos that are played for immigrants who are in detention and not in detention, as well as a frequently asked questions handout they receive.

The Houston Chronicle shares the stories of teens who entered the United States through the Central American Minors program, which was instituted by the Obama administration in 2014 to allow children and teens from El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala who fulfilled stringent requirements to apply for protection here from their home countries. The Trump administration terminated the program …

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These ‘secret’ courts are an injustice to democracy and the United States.

U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar issued an order restoring the nationwide scope of his July 24, 2019, order enjoining the government from taking any action continuing to implement the July 16, 2019, DHS and DOJ joint interim final rule establishing a mandatory bar to asylum eligibility for persons who transit through a third country and enter or attempt to enter the …

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DOL’s Office of Foreign Labor Certification (OFLC) announced that beginning September 16, 2019, stakeholders can prepare Labor Condition Applications (LCAs) for H‑1B, H‑1B1, and E‑3 visas in the FLAG System. The system will not permit submission of LCAs until 12:00 pm (ET) on October 1, 2019, and OFLC will accept submissions through iCERT until then. OFLC …

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After having his E-2 visa application denied by the Consulate in Canada, our client retained us to file a new application and a few months later, his application was approved, allowing him to enter the U.S. as the owner of two day-care centers in Florida. https://cbocalbos.wordpress.com/tag/e2-visa-attorney/ https://cbocalbos.wordpress.com/tag/e2-visa-lawyer/ https://cbocalbos.wordpress.com/tag/e2-visa-petition/ https://californiaimmigration.us/investment-visas/e2-investment-visa/