Kansas City Immigration Attorneys
The attorneys at Hoppock Law Firm, LLC have represented hundreds of immigrants and their families all over the world in immigration court proceedings, BIA appeals, Circuit Court appeals, litigation, and benefit applications before the USCIS. We have years of experience litigating immigration cases in court, before the USCIS, and on appeal all over the United States. We have earned our reputation for being honest, hardworking, and willing to take on difficult cases in the toughest venues. We strive to develop caring relationships with clients built on communication and collaboration and would be glad to talk with you about your immigration matter.
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Why Choose the Attorneys at Hoppock Law Firm?
Experience
We have represented clients regularly before the immigration courts, USCIS, the asylum offices, and in federal court all around the United States.
Success
Although outcomes are never guaranteed, we have built a long list of victories in courts around the country, including published decisions Gatimi v. Holder, Alphonsus v. Holder, and Tula-Rubio v. Lynch, among others
Creativity
Sometimes there are better options you haven’t thought of. It starts with asking the right questions. We look for every angle to find the best option for each case.
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In addition to communicating with clients about their specific cases, we try to keep clients and others informed about changes in the law, practical changes at the BIA and immigration courts, political changes that might affect our clients, and Kansas City immigration attorney issues. Here are our most recent posts. You can also read all Blog posts here.
DOJ Library Tools for Public Records Research
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 Libraries - Corporation...
AAO Grants T Visa Appeal About Presence “On Account of” Trafficking
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 I'm posting the unpublished decision: Matter of...
Eighth Circuit Confirms a Pending U Visa Justifies Delaying Deportation Proceedings
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
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 just aggregate what the...
The Lookout – EOIR’s Fraud and Abuse Prevention Program Newsletter
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?
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, the day...
Post-Pereira, the DOJ Chooses Harsh IJ Performance Metrics Over Compliance With Supreme Court Mandate
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, which go into...
FOIA Results for the BIA Webpage (Intranet)
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 information for BIA employees on...
FOIA Results: Immigration Judges’ Conference Materials for 2018
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
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...