Attorney General Issues New Decision Questioning a Grant of Asylum and Tightening Appellate Review of Asylum Decisions

This week the Attorney General (AG) spun the combination lock on the vault of seemingly finalized Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) decisions – pulled out an asylum grant – vacated the decision – and remanded it to the BIA for Continue reading Attorney General Issues New Decision Questioning a Grant of Asylum and Tightening Appellate Review of Asylum Decisions

THE ATTORNEY GENERAL HOLDS THAT ASYLUM SEEKERS WHO ARE TRANSFERRED TO REMOVAL PROCEEDINGS AFTER PASSING A CREDIBLE FEAR DETERMINATION ARE STATUTORILY INELIGIBLE FOR BOND

Weekly Blog for 4.19.19 by Merle Kahn, Esq. Attorney General William Barr issued his first immigration decision this week.  The legal reasoning and the writing hold together better than Sessions’s decisions, but the outcome is similarly horrific.  The AG withdrew Continue reading THE ATTORNEY GENERAL HOLDS THAT ASYLUM SEEKERS WHO ARE TRANSFERRED TO REMOVAL PROCEEDINGS AFTER PASSING A CREDIBLE FEAR DETERMINATION ARE STATUTORILY INELIGIBLE FOR BOND