Applicants for asylum can refile at USCIS
The USCIS is instructed that asylum-seekers who had a case pending at the EOIR (immigration court) can file the applications with the USCIS if the EOIR dismisses their application cases. […]
BIA Setting the Stage for More Confusion
© Attorney Farhad Sethna, 2019 In Matter of Sylvestre Mendoza-Hernandez and Rufina Capula-Cortes 27 I&N Dec. 520 (BIA 2019), issued May 1, 2019, the BIA further confuses the Supreme […]
Ohio Supreme Court Clarifies valid notice of Immigration Consequences in state court actions
© Attorney Farhad Sethna, 2019 The case is: State v. Romero, Slip Opinion No. 2019-Ohio-1839 (May 15, 2019 appeal from the Court of Appeals for Stark County, Ohio, Case […]
BIA misinterprets Pereira v. Sessions setting stage for (hopefully) a slapdown by Supreme Court
BIA Purposely Setting the Stage for More Confusion © Attorney Farhad Sethna, 2019 __________________________________________________________________________ In Matter of Sylvestre Mendoza-Hernandez and Rufina Capula-Cortes 27 I&N Dec. 520 (BIA 2019), issued May […]
USCIS ANNOUNCES FEE INCREASE
By Attorney Farhad Sethna © 2016 In a notice published on Wednesday, May 4, 2016, in the Federal Register (the official publication of the United States Government), the USCIS proposed […]
CAN AN ATTORNEY LIMIT REPRESENTATION BEFORE THE IMMIGRATION COURT?
By Farhad Sethna, Attorney © 2015 As attorneys, for whatever reason, we may not want to continue to represent a client. The issue becomes whether an attorney who has already […]
STEM OPT EXTENSION IN TROUBLE?
By Farhad Sethna, Attorney © 2015 On August 12, 2015, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, in “Washington Alliance of Technology Workers v. U.S. Department of […]
DESPERATION IN DILLEY
By Farhad Sethna, Attorney © 2015 ________________________ This article is dedicated – with gratitude – to volunteers at all the immigration jails in the United States. _______________________ When I volunteered […]