A Nigerian citizen incarcerated in state prison on a 20-year term for credit card theft and attempted grand larceny has no basis for his current challenge to a detainer lodged by immigration officials notifying him of an intent to issue ...

Tagged with: Immigration Judge James C. Cacheris U.S. District Court - Eastern District

When congressional lawmakers return from the summer recess on Sept. 9, they could decide to take up an issue that has stalled in Washington for decades: immigration reform. Although the momentum that existed earlier this year among lawmakers of both ...

Tagged with: DC Report Immigration

The 4th Circuit upholds a preliminary injunction halting enforcement, on preemption grounds, of a South Carolina statute that makes it a state criminal offense for: 1) an illegal alien to conceal herself from detection or allow herself to be transported ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Immigration Judge Andre M. Davis

The 4th Circuit grants an Afghan citizen’s petition for review of a final order of removal, and says the government failed to prove that his act of “grabbing” the hand of a police officer who was processing his Maryland DUI ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Immigration Judge Albert Diaz

A Peruvian petitioner loses his appeal of a BIA decision that says he must be deported despite his fear of torture by government officials for his trial testimony about a police officer murdering petitioner’s companion; the 4th Circuit upholds the ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Immigration Judge Henry F. Floyd

A Salvadoran citizen who had temporary protected status is not eligible for discretionary relief from removal under the Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central American Relief Act because his 1996 conviction of assault and battery qualifies as a “crime of violence”; the ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Immigration Judge Paul V. Niemeyer

A federal inmate who is a permanent resident alien in the U.S. cannot sue for a declaration that he is a U.S. national based his application for citizenship, Selective Service registration and declaration of permanent allegiance to the U.S., in ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Immigration Judge Roger L. Gregory

A Jordanian native who was denied citizenship because of alleged ties to the Muslim Brotherhood wins $47,577 in attorney’s fees and costs, as the government’s position was not “substantially justified”; an Alexandria U.S. District Court says the applicant’s membership in ...

Tagged with: Immigration Judge James C. Cacheris U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A new federal rule will allow certain undocumented immigrants who are applying for permanent residency to stay in the U.S. while they seek waivers to remain in the country, rather than require them to wait overseas while their applications are ...

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An Angolan citizen cannot overturn the Board of Immigration Appeals’ denial of relief from removal, as his activities of paying monthly dues to and hanging posters for a terrorist organization disqualify him under the “Material Support Bar,” the 4th Circuit ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Immigration Judge James A. Wynn Jr.