Immigration Courts across the U.S. have been randomly rescheduling and advancing cases without regard to attorney availability or whether we […]
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President Biden’s New Border Policy: Sound and Fury at the Border, Signifying Nothing for Those Who Wait
In response to record numbers of migrants arriving at our Southern border–2.2 million in FY2022–President Biden has announced some new […]
The Blessings of Resettling Refugees
Conventional wisdom holds that resettling refugees and asylum seekers is a burden on the host country. Indeed, many of our […]
Judging the Judges in Immigration Court
To paraphrase Forrest Gump, Immigration Court is like a box of chocolates; you never know what you’re going to get. […]
New USCIS Report Highlights Progress and Challenges
USCIS recently issued its Fiscal Year 2022 report (covering the period from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2022). The […]
Withdrawing Your Asylum Case
If you are reading this blog (which presumably, you are), you already know about the massive delays at our nation’s […]
How Do U.S. Immigration Courts Compare to Iranian Revolutionary Courts?
I recently read an article in the Washington Post about the treatment of political activists in Iran: “Protesters arrested in […]
Asylum Division Continues to Hire Fraud Detectors; Not Protection Officers
This post is by Larry Gollub, who writes: I first encountered a proposal to create a professional corps of asylum […]
Protesting Delay at the Asylum Office
On October 27, 2022, a group of torture survivors held a protest outside the Arlington Asylum Office. The protesters were […]
Afghan Asylum Absurdity
I wrote last time about recent updates from the Asylum Division. Here, I want to focus on one element of […]