by Matthew Hoppock | Nov 1, 2012 | Immigration, Uncategorized |
Today the Office of Inspector General released a troubling report on the efficiency of the Immigration Courts and the BIA. While I disagree with the focus of the report, which ultimately seems to be that “continuances” are bad, there is some...
by Matthew Hoppock | Jan 10, 2012 | Immigration, Uncategorized |
We remarked last week that a NY Times editorial had a bizarre and simply untrue observation about the use of “Affirmance Without Opinion” (AWO) by the Board, describing it as somewhat commonplace. As we noted, it’s just not used that often...
by Matthew Hoppock | Jan 3, 2012 | Uncategorized |
An editorial in the New York Times today about the Judulang decision inaccurately described the effect of the BIA’s “affirmance without opinion” policy (regularly referred to as AWO) on an immigrant’s chances of filing a federal court...
