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The Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) is an administrative appellate body within the Executive Office for Immigration Review of the United States Department of Justice responsible for reviewing decisions of the U.S. immigration courts and certain actions of U.S. Citizenship Immigration Services, U.S Customs and Border Protection, and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
The Office of the Chief Immigration Judge (OCIJ) is the authority under which trial-level immigration judges are situated. [13] Like the EOIR director and deputy director, the Chief Immigration Judge is appointed by the attorney general, though he or she is supervised directly by the director of EOIR. [ 13 ]
The immigration judge will set a merits hearing date when respondents file an application for relief or express to the immigration judge seeking a specific form of relief not precluded by law. The merits hearing may be a matter of days or perhaps even more than a year later, depending on the type of relief requested and the particular court's ...
An immigration judge decides cases of aliens in various types of removal proceedings. [3] [4] During the proceedings, an immigration judge may grant any type of immigration relief or benefit to a noncitizen, including to his or her family members. An immigration judge is appointed by (and works under the direction of) the U.S. Attorney General.
On Wednesday, July 28, 2010, Judge Susan R. Bolton blocked key portions of SB 1070 including "requiring police to check the immigration status of those they arrest or whom they stop and suspect are in the country undocumented would overwhelm the federal government's ability to respond, and could mean legal immigrants are wrongly arrested."
Donald Trump’s lawyers are asking a New York judge to lift the gag order that barred the former president from commenting about witnesses, jurors and others tied to the criminal case that led to ...
Expedited removal is a process related to immigration enforcement in the United States where an alien is denied entry to and/or physically removed from the country, [1] without going through the normal removal proceedings (which involve hearings before an immigration judge). [2]
Several letters in support of convicted former Chicago Ald. Edward Burke were made public Tuesday in advance of his sentencing hearing in June, including one from former mayoral candidate Paul ...