Category: Judicial & Courts
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read here . Affirmative Asylum Cases (asylum applications which are not responding to governmental deportation orders which generally go through USCIS interviews for a decision) may now be sent directly to a judge for his/her decision without needing to have an interview by USCIS. This will speed up the process and MegaMaster Hearings could accelerate…
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Read here
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Read here – good chart showing sharp increase in lawsuits.
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Voluntary Departures, generally associated with immigration court cases, are about 10 times what they had been (typical = 800/month) during Biden administration. Read here
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This article summarizes the current situation in immigration courts regarding asylum denial and acceptance rates – TRAC analysis using government data – which vary by judge. Also, in this article, a good map of the # of immigration judges by location. And shows 3.7 million backlogged cases in immigration courts.
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Interesting article here
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Read this article, at Slate.com, where a lawyer laments the lack of consistency across Immigration Judges’ decisions regarding habeas.
Immigration Insight 