New BIA decision cracks door open to termination of pending cases
In Matter of Fernandes, 28 I&N Dec. 605 (BIA 2022), a three-member panel on the board of immigration appeals (BIA) held, in a two – one decision, that indeed, alien […]
Unrestricted Liberty to Make Arbitrary Decisions?
©Attorney Farhad Sethna, 2022 In a decision issued May 16, 2022, in Patel v Garland, the United States Supreme Court struck a massive blow against immigrants. In that decision, the […]
The Proposed “Public Charge” Rule
Copyright 2022, by Farhad Sethna, Attorney, and Paul O’Brien, Law Clerk, the Law Offices of Farhad Sethna On April 12, 2021, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced that the […]
Bond Hearings at Cleveland Immigration Court
The US immigration and customs enforcement has opened up a huge new detention center, the “Moshannon Valley Processing Center ”, in the middle of Pennsylvania. Never mind that it’s hundreds […]
Prosecutorial discretion once again!
©Attorney Farhad Sethna, 2021 As background, prosecutorial discretion under the Department of Homeland Security is essentially a determination by DHS as to which aliens it is going to prosecute and […]
Date and Time needed for perfect NTA, says Supreme Court
On April 29, 2021, the Supreme Court of the United States, decided in Niz-Chavez v Garland, Case No. 19-863, 593 U.S. ___ (2021). Basically, in Niz-Chavez, the Supreme Court reiterated […]
The one-year asylum bar – the Mendez-Rojas extension
©Attorney Farhad Sethna, 2021 This blog article provides information on the class settlement between various plaintiffs – asylum-seekers, and the US government. The case is Mendez-Rojas v. Johnson 305 F. […]
US Citizenship Act 2021 – A Summary of Selected sections in point form
Dear Reader: PLEASE NOTE – each and every clause of the new bill is NOT discussed below – this summary is of the clauses that I thought were relevant and […]