In more DACA news, a District of Columbia federal district court ruled last week that the Department of Homeland Security's rescission of the DACA program was arbitrary and capricious. As a consequence, the rescission has been set aside and the government has been...
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Month: April 2018
2018 Asylum Update | One-Year Filing Deadline
On March 29, 2018, a federal district court judge granted Summary Judgement on behalf of plaintiffs who were blocked from filing their asylum claims. In the ruling, Judge Ricardo S. Martinez held that the government's failure to furnish sufficient notice of the...
Problems for Citizenship | Citizenship and Naturalization Lawyer in NJ
In an earlier post, we previously discussed some permanent bars to citizenship, the most prominent of which were murder (which should be no surprise) and aggravated felonies, arguably the most virulent type of crime for immigration. But these are not the only kind of...
Can A Dependent Family Member Immigrate If The Main Beneficiary Dies? | 204l
One of the most frequently asked questions we run into concerns the legal ability of derivative family-based beneficiaries to immigrate if the principal beneficiary is not able to. The common context in which this occurs is when a principal beneficiary dies before...
Closing My Immigration Court Case | Administrative Closure vs. Termination
While immigration court hearings are commonly regarded as relatively informal civil proceedings, nothing could be further from the truth. Removal defense practice and effective lawyering, especially in this climate, can be daunting. Even the terminology can be...