In Matter of Coronado-Acevedo, 28 I&N Dec. 648 (A.G. 2022), Attorney General Merrick Garland confirmed that immigration judges did have the authority to terminate cases before them under certain circumstances. […]
©Attorney Farhad Sethna, 2022 The USCIS final rule on DACA goes into effect on October 31, 2022. The USCIS states that there are over 700,000 DACA recipients in the United […]
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 […]
©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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
©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 […]
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 […]
