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DOJ Library Tools for Public Records Research

DOJ Library Tools for Public Records Research

by Matthew Hoppock | Apr 24, 2019 | Immigration | 0 comments

I’m sharing a series of research tools we received today in response to a FOIA request submitted in May, 2018: DOJ Libraries – Public Records GuideDownload DOJ Libraries – Court DocketsDownload DOJ Libraries – Asset SearchingDownload DOJ...
AAO Grants T Visa Appeal About Presence “On Account of” Trafficking

AAO Grants T Visa Appeal About Presence “On Account of” Trafficking

by Matthew Hoppock | Apr 7, 2019 | Immigration | 0 comments

After an informal policy shift last year led the USCIS to start denying human trafficking visas by misreading the statutory text, creating a requirement that never existed before, we’ve won our first appeal on the issue. I’m posting the unpublished...
Eighth Circuit Confirms a Pending U Visa Justifies Delaying Deportation Proceedings

Eighth Circuit Confirms a Pending U Visa Justifies Delaying Deportation Proceedings

by Matthew Hoppock | Apr 7, 2019 | Immigration | 0 comments

In a published decision on April 3, 2019 the Eighth Circuit granted our appeal in a case involving a pending U Visa, Caballero-Martinez v. Barr. The decision will help provide guidance to immigration judges in the Eighth Circuit, including Kansas City where I...
EOIR Morning Briefing Received Via FOIA

EOIR Morning Briefing Received Via FOIA

by Matthew Hoppock | Apr 5, 2019 | Immigration | 2 comments

In September, 2018 the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) started producing this publication called the “EOIR Morning Briefing.” They’re not quite daily and they look like a collection of news stories. But there’s more.  Rather than...
The Lookout – EOIR’s Fraud and Abuse Prevention Program Newsletter

The Lookout – EOIR’s Fraud and Abuse Prevention Program Newsletter

by Matthew Hoppock | Dec 5, 2018 | Immigration | 0 comments

The Executive Office of Immigration Review (which is responsible for the immigration courts and the Board of Immigration Appeals) has an active Fraud and Abuse Prevention Program (FAPP). I was excited to learn that since May, 2017 the FAPP has been publishing a...
Did the BIA Edit the Attorney General’s Decision in Matter of Castro-Tum? If So, Does it Matter?

Did the BIA Edit the Attorney General’s Decision in Matter of Castro-Tum? If So, Does it Matter?

by Matthew Hoppock | Nov 2, 2018 | FOIA, Immigration | 0 comments

A series of FOIA requests regarding the Attorney General’s decision in Matter of Castro-Tum seem to have revealed something strange about that decision: it was edited after the Attorney General issued it. E-mail messages to and from BIA staff on May 17, 2018,...
Post-Pereira, the DOJ Chooses Harsh IJ Performance Metrics Over Compliance With Supreme Court Mandate

Post-Pereira, the DOJ Chooses Harsh IJ Performance Metrics Over Compliance With Supreme Court Mandate

by Matthew Hoppock | Sep 20, 2018 | Immigration, Immigration Practice | 3 comments

It is starting to appear the Department of Justice has chosen not to comply with the Supreme Court’s decision in Pereira v. Sessions because doing so would conflict with the agency’s self-imposed deportation quotas it is placing on Immigration Judges,...
FOIA Results for the BIA Webpage (Intranet)

FOIA Results for the BIA Webpage (Intranet)

by Matthew Hoppock | Sep 19, 2018 | FOIA | 0 comments

About two months ago I received a document called the “BIA Style Guide” in response to a FOIA request and saw multiple references in the Style Guide to something called the “BIA Webpage” which appeared to be an intranet of sorts, with...
FOIA Results: Immigration Judges’ Conference Materials for 2018

FOIA Results: Immigration Judges’ Conference Materials for 2018

by Matthew Hoppock | Aug 21, 2018 | FOIA, Immigration, Immigration Practice | 1 comment

Every summer the Immigration Judges from around the country meet in suburban Washington D.C. for a training session. The training materials are interesting, because they help us understand the IJs’ thinking on specific issues. The 2018 conference was held at the...
BIA Style Manual and Other Policies and Procedures

BIA Style Manual and Other Policies and Procedures

by Matthew Hoppock | Jul 16, 2018 | BIA Best Practices, FOIA | 1 comment

I received a final response on my FOIA request for any memoranda or guidance directed to BIA members. I was surprised by how much we received. Here they are: BIA Style Manual_redline_Redacted (242 pgs) 15-05 Handling Cases Involving Certain Applications for...
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