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Immigration Courts Issuing "Standing Orders" Severely Limiting Rights During Hearings But Not Sharing Them With the Public

Immigration Courts Issuing "Standing Orders" Severely Limiting Rights During Hearings But Not Sharing Them With the Public

by Matthew Hoppock | Mar 25, 2020 | Immigration | 0 comments

The Immigration Courts are secretly issuing a series of “standing orders” describing their process for handling the coronavirus. Unfortunately, nobody at EOIR is actually announcing these in any formal way. Some are being added periodically to page 234 of...
Immigration Court “Status Docket” – the Secret Almost Alternative to Administrative Closure

Immigration Court “Status Docket” – the Secret Almost Alternative to Administrative Closure

by Matthew Hoppock | Nov 5, 2019 | FOIA, Immigration, Immigration Practice | 0 comments

We should have seen it coming. In 2018 the Attorney General ended the ability of immigration judges to administratively close cases, concluding they had in fact never had such authority. As shocking as that was at the time, we’re now seeing pieces of that puzzle...
District Court Dismisses Denaturalization Case

District Court Dismisses Denaturalization Case

by Matthew Hoppock | May 9, 2019 | Denaturalization, Immigration | 2 comments

Today the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas dismissed a denaturalization case against our client. The order is here: U.S. v. Malik – Order Denying Denaturalization The court conducted a two-day bench trial in October, 2018 and we were eagerly...
Immigration Court “Status Docket” – the Secret Almost Alternative to Administrative Closure

Internal BIA Documents on Processing of Appeals and Motions

by Matthew Hoppock | Apr 24, 2019 | Immigration | 1 comment

I’m writing to share more FOIA records we’ve received from the BIA. For the last year we’ve been working on obtaining records through FOIA to better understand how the Board of Immigration Appeals works from top to bottom. The thought is that with...
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...
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