⚖️ Board of Immigration Appeals

Based on the plain language of section 235(b)(2)(A) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C. § 1225(b)(2)(A) (2018), Immigration Judges lack authority to hear bond requests or to grant bond to...

S-E-G-, 24 I&N Dec. 579 (BIA 2008) ID 3617 (PDF) Neither Salvadoran youth who have been subjected to recruitment efforts by the MS-13 gang and who have rejected or resisted membership in the gang base...

HASHMI, 24 I&N Dec. 785 (BIA 2009) ID 3640 (PDF) (1) An alien's unopposed motion to continue ongoing removal proceedings to await the adjudication of a pending family-based visa petition should genera...

M-R-A-, 24 I&N Dec. 665 (BIA 2008) ID 3628 (PDF) (1) Where a Notice to Appear or Notice of Hearing is properly addressed and sent by regular mail according to normal office procedures, there is a pres...

COMPEAN, BANGALY & J-E-C-, 25 I&N Dec. 1 (A.G. 2009) ID 3643 (PDF) The Attorney General vacated the decision in Matter of Compean, Bangaly & J-E-C-, 24 I&N Dec. 710 (A.G. 2009), and pending the outcom...

E-A-G-, 24 I&N Dec. 591 (BIA 2008) ID 3618 (PDF) (1) The respondent, a young Honduran male, failed to establish that he was a member of a particular social group of "persons resistant to gang membersh...

A-S-B-, 24 I&N Dec. 493 (BIA 2008) ID 3608 (PDF) (1) Under 8 C.F.R. § 1003.1(d)(3) (2008), the Board of Immigration Appeals should defer to the factual findings of an Immigration Judge, unless they ar...

VELAZQUEZ-HERRERA, 24 I&N Dec. 503 (BIA 2008) ID 3610 (PDF) (1) For purposes of the ground of removal set forth at section 237(a)(2)(E)(i) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C. § 1227(a)(2)...

YAURI, 25 I&N Dec. 103 (BIA 2009) ID 3659 (PDF) (1) With a narrow exception not applicable to this case, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services ("USCIS") has exclusive jurisdiction to ...

J-S-, 24 I&N Dec. 520 (A.G. 2008) ID 3611 (PDF) (1) The spouse of a person who has been physically subjected to a forced abortion orsterilization procedure is not per se entitled to refugee status und...

(1) An applicant for admission who is arrested and detained without a warrant while arriving in the United States, whether or not at a port of entry, and subsequently placed in removal proceedings is ...

M-F-W- & L-G-, 24 I&N Dec. 633 (BIA 2008) ID 3625 (PDF) (1) An act that thwarts the goals of China's family planning policy, such as removing an intrauterine device ("IUD") or failing to attend a mand...

URENA, 25 I&N Dec. 140 (BIA 2009) ID 3663 (PDF) (1) Dangerous aliens are properly detained without bond pending the completion of proceedings to remove them from the United States. (2) Only if an alie...

GARCIA-MADRUGA, 24 I&N Dec. 436 (BIA 2008) ID 3596 (PDF) (1) A "theft offense" within the definition of an aggravated felony in section 101(a)(43)(G) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C. §...

D-I-M-, 24 I&N Dec. 448 (BIA 2008) ID 3599 (PDF) (1) When evaluating an application for asylum, the Immigration Judge must make a specific finding that the applicant has or has not suffered past perse...

WANG, 25 I&N Dec. 28 (BIA 2009) ID 3646 (PDF) The automatic conversion and priority date retention provisions of the Child Status Protection Act, Pub L. No. 107-208, 116 Stat. 927 (2002), do not apply...

RAJAH, 25 I&N Dec. 127 (BIA 2009) ID 3662 (PDF) (1) In determining whether good cause exists to continue removal proceedings to await the adjudication of a pending employment-based visa petition or la...

I-S- & C-S-, 24 I&N Dec. 432 (BIA 2008) ID 3595 (PDF) When an Immigration Judge issues a decision granting an alien's application for withholding of removal under section 241(b)(3) of the Immigration ...

ARMENDAREZ, 24 I&N Dec. 646 (BIA 2008) ID 3626 (PDF) Pursuant to 8 C.F.R. § 1003.2(d) (2008), the Board of Immigration Appeals lacks authority to reopen removal, deportation, or exclusion proceedings–...