South Carolina Lawyers Weekly

  U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, or USCIS, erred when it required a permanent custody order before it would allow an immigrant to qualify for special juvenile status because that requirement is not found in the statute. Background In late ...

  Where the Board of Immigration Appeals instructed the Immigration Judge to allow a petitioner from Cameroon to explain inconsistencies in her prior testimony, her due process rights were violated when the judge denied her application for asylum before she ...

Although a petitioner argued his status as a merchant in the formal Honduran economy was a “particular social group” that qualified for asylum, the Board of Immigration Appeals, or BIA, did not err in following its precedent, which holds the ...

Where the Board of Immigration Appeals instructed the Immigration Judge to allow a petitioner from Cameroon to explain inconsistencies in her prior testimony, her due process rights were violated when the judge denied her application for asylum before she was ...

Where the Board of Immigration Appeals instructed the Immigration Judge to allow a petitioner from Cameroon to explain inconsistencies in her prior testimony, her due process rights were violated when the judge denied her application for asylum before she was ...

Where the Board of Immigration Appeals, or BIA, remands a case to the immigration judge for background checks, the court joins the majority of circuits in holding the BIA’s decision is not a final order of removal for purposes of ...

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, or USCIS, application of the law that was in effect when an Alien Relative petition brought by an immigrant and his wife was adjudicated, rather than the statute that was in effect when the petition ...

Where noncitizens are awaiting the outcome of proceedings on their petitions to withhold removal based on a fear of persecution or torture in other countries, they are entitled to bond hearings that could lead to their release during those proceedings. ...

Where an opinion issued by the Attorney General, holding that immigration judges and the Board of Immigration Appeals, or BIA, lacks authority to administratively close a case, was contrary to the plain language of the regulations and would upend settled ...

A lawful permanent resident could not be removed under the Immigration and Nationality Act based on his conviction for participation in a criminal street gang under Virginia law because an individual can be convicted of that offense without committing a ...