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- On May 31, 2019, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) issued a memorandum changing its internal policy for assessing asylum office jurisdiction over asylum applications filed by previously designated unaccompanied immigrant children. This memorandum and the summary below provide…
- On October 16, 2018, the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) issued a published decision in Matter of M-A-C-O-, 27 I&N Dec. 477 (BIA 2018), regarding jurisdiction over asylum applications filed by individuals who were previously designated as unaccompanied immigrant children (UICs), but filed…
- Today, June 11, 2018, the Attorney General issued a decision in Matter of A-B-, 27 I&N Dec. 316 (A.G. 2018), overruling a precedent decision regarding the manner in which private violence (particularly, domestic violence) can give rise to a viable asylum claim. NIJC and our partners across the…
- On March 29, 2018, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington issued a decision regarding the one-year filing deadline for asylum that has nationwide implications. In the decision, Mendez Rojas v. Johnson, 2018 WL 1532715 (W.D. Wash. Mar. 29, 2018), the Court held that the…
- On September 11, 2017, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Office of Chief Counsel (OCC) began using a new e-service filing system. As of September 12, 2017, the previously used opla-chi-eservice@ice.dhs.gov and the chicagooccfilings@ice.dhs.gov email addresses will be discontinued. Any…