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BIA Reads Dictionary, Finds that a ‘Departure’ on Advance Parole Is a ‘Departure’

On August 13, the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) — the DOJ tribunal that reviews immigration decisions — issued an opinion in Matter of Delcarmen-Lara, finding that an alien wh...

BIA Overrules Arrabally: Advance Parole Travel Is Now a “Departure” — And DACA Recipients Just Lost Their Last Clean Pat...

The Board of Immigration Appeals just took away the only clean path a whole category of DACA recipients had left. Matter of Delcarmen-Lara, 29 I&N Dec. 830 (BIA Aug. 13, 2026)...

BIA: Get a Lawyer within 10 Days, or Be Ready to Proceed Without One

For decades, respondents in immigration court have used serial continuances to stretch their removal cases out indefinitely, thus stymieing DHS’s ability to deport them. In this re...

Immigration – BIA can’t consider vacated conviction as valid for immigration purposes

Where the Board of Immigration Appeals determined that a vacated conviction was still valid for immigration purposes, it erred. The post Immigration – BIA can’t consider vacated co...

BIA Orders Alien Voter Removed, Denies Relief

That thing that purportedly never happens – voting by non-citizens – just cost this alien his green card, and the Board suggests the immigration judge could have given the illegal...

Matter of Diji: The Board Killed a 25-Year Notice Rule It Didn’t Need To

By Michael D. Baker Ifeanyi Diji showed up to collect his green card and learned he had already lost. On June 3, 2025, he walked into his marriage-based adjustment interview, marri...

NewsFlash! BIA Holds Advance Parole Travel Can Trigger Unlawful-Presence Bar

The Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) issued a precedential decision on August 13, 2026, holding that a departure from the United States under advance parole is a “departure” for...

Appellate Board Sustains $3K Fine on Alien Who Failed to Voluntarily Depart

If you want to see what decades of non-enforcement of the INA looks like, consider R-P-L-, an alien granted the privilege of leaving voluntarily, but who for more than 20 years abu...

USCIS Can Now Send Asylum Seekers to Immigration Court Without an Interview

No Interview, No Hearing, No One Watching By Michael D. Baker Immigration Equality v. Mullin, No. 1:26-cv-02921 (D.D.C. filed Aug. 19, 2026). It challenges Affirmative Asylum Refer...

Immigration Court Backlog Falls Below 3.5 Million

The Executive Office for Immigration Reform (EOIR) — the DOJ component that oversees the immigration courts and the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) — has just published statisti...

Immigration – Injunction against provisional waiver applicants is vacated

Where the district court enjoined the government from arresting or removing noncitizens until their provisional waiver seeking legal status is completed, it erred. The provisional...

The Board Cuts the Right to Counsel Down to Ten Days

In Matter of A-K-R-, the BIA holds that a single ten-day cushion is the only hard time the statute owes you to find a lawyer. Everything after it is a favor. By Michael D. Baker A...

Immigration – Immigration judge wrongly denied petitioner opportunity to present argument

Where the immigration judge gave the petitioner no reasonable opportunity to present evidence or argument on her claim for cancellation as it pertained to third country removal, it...

A Bad Time to Be a Bad Immigration Lawyer

This BIA opinion makes it more likely that formal complaints will be filed when ineffective assistance of counsel is claimed. Combined with DHS’s recent crackdown on attorneys who...

Armelle Bondonga case: Bond denied as immigration judge claims no jurisdiction

An Indianapolis judge declined to grant bond to Armelle Bondonga, saying the case belongs to the Department of Homeland Security.

Missed Biometrics Appointments May Result in USCIS Denial of Immigration Applications

Court of Appeal reiterates restricted nature of Article 8 family life

In Entry Clearance Officer v BB & Ors [2026] EWCA Civ 973 the Court of Appeal reminds us — and, more to the point, the Upper Tribunal — of the restricted nature of family life...

Appeals court rejects the Trump administration's expansion of mandatory detention for immigrants

The Trump administration cannot deny immigrants detained inside the United States a chance for release on bond, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday. The 2-1 decision by the San...

Appeals court rejects the Trump administration’s expansion of mandatory detention for immigrants

(AP) — The Trump administration cannot deny immigrants detained inside the United States a chance for release on bond, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday. The 2-1 decision by t...

Immigration – Immigration judge failed to follow law

Where an immigration judge failed to follow the required two-step process when considering whether a petitioner was eligible for asylum and withholding of removal, the decision was...

Appeals court reverses decision on immigrant detention, leaving no-bond policy in place

The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed a July 2 panel decision requiring bond hearings for immigrants held under the Trump administration’s mandatory detention policy. ...

State Department to Revoke B-1/B-2 Visas of Asylum Seekers

US appeals court affirms injunction blocking immigration enforcement at houses of worship

The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit affirmed a preliminary injunction Tuesday barring the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from conducting immigration enforcemen...

What to Do After an Immigration Application Is Denied

Receiving a denial on an immigration application can feel upsetting and confusing. You may worry about your ability to remain in the country, work legally, reunite with family memb...