The National Lawyers’ Guild has answered ICE’s request for feedback on it’s policy to resume deporations of Haitian nationals: On Monday, March 7, 2011 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) requested feedback on its policy to resume deportations/removals to Haiti. The deadline for comments is March 11 to email your comments to ICE. The National Immigration [...]

Yesterday in Diouf v. Napolitano the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit  issued an opinion confirming that an individual facing prolonged immigration detention under 8 U.S.C. § 1231(a)(6) is entitled to release on bond unless the government establishes that he is a flight risk or a danger to the community. In other words, the burden [...]

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has been stepping on immigration enforcement activities. Here’s a recent article from the Associated Press: Federal authorities say a six-day sweep of South Florida has netted 19 illegal immigrants with criminal records. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement says the operation that ended Thursday also caught four fugitives with final orders of [...]

A Notice to Appear (NTA) - DHS Form I-862 - is issued by the US Immigration & Customs Enforcement (USICE) to initiate Removal (Deportation) proceedings.  The NTA is submitted to the Executive Office for Immigration Review (i.e. Immigration Court) having jurisdiction over the place of residence of the individual the USICE seeks to deport. There are 3 main [...]

Only individuals who fear government persecution on account of race, religion, national origin, political opinion or membership in a particular social group are eligible for asylum. An immigration judge (IJ) in Brentwood, New York granted asylum to three Hondoruan children, ages 15, 14 and 11, finding that the children were members of a particular social [...]

Judge Chapman was appointed as an immigration judge in March 2008. He received a bachelor of science degree in 1979 from Arkansas Tech University and a juris doctorate in 1986 from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. From 2003 to March 2008, Judge Chapman served as deputy general counsel, Office of the General Counsel, [...]

Judge Earle B. Wilson FY 2002 – 2007, Orlando Immigration Court Judge Wilson was appointed as an Immigration Judge in October 2005. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1979 from Atlantic Union College, and a Juris Doctorate in 1989 from Howard University School of Law. Judge Wilson served as a senior litigation counsel [...]

A deportation notice (called a Notice to Appear or an NTA) means the United States’ government wants to remove you from the country. All deportation cases are handled by the Executive Office of Immigration Review, also known as Immigration Court. Immigration Court The USCIS will assign an experienced government trial lawyer to prosecute your case (i.e. prove that [...]

Many of our clients come to us after their Asylum Applications (Form-I-589) have been denied by USCIS and they have been put into deportation proceedings. The first thing we do in these cases is review the Asylum Application. It is our experience that the overwhelming majority of self-prepared and non-lawyer prepared Asylum Applications are incomplete and [...]