Immigration Review

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Rosa v. Bondi, No. 24-1240 (1st Cir. Mar. 14, 2025)

• DHS burden to prove alienage by clear, unequivocal, and convincing evidence; Woodby standard

Wilkinson v. Att'y Gen. U.S., No. 21-3166 (3d Cir. Mar. 11, 2025)

• extreme and exceptionally unusual hardship; substantial evidence standard of review; psychological harm without experts

Rahman v. Bondi, No. 23-3608 (6th Cir. Mar. 13, 2025)

• types of hardship review; Wilkinson; INA § 212(i) waiver; INA § 212(a)(9)(B)(v) waiver; unlawful presence waiver; no adverse credibility review; satisfaction of the Attorney General

Dineshkumar Patel v. Bondi, No. 24-3614 (6th Cir. Mar. 11, 2025)

• fear of loan sharks; extortion; nexus; acquiesce; India

Gulomjonov v. Bondi, No. 21-2844 (7th Cir. Mar. 14, 2025)

• material change exception to one year asylum filing deadline; Loper Bright; satisfaction of the attorney general; heightened deference; 8 C.F.R. § 1208.4(a)(4)(ii); reasonable time; Catholic converts; Uzbekistan 

Singh v. Bondi, No. 23-9589 (10th Cir. Mar. 11, 2025)

• unable or unwilling to protect; reporting to police; State Department reports; Mann party asylum claim; Sikh; India

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Lau v. Bondi, No. 21-6623 (2d Cir. Mar. 4, 2025)

• LPR as arriving alien applicant for admission; INA § 101(a)(13)(C)(v); CIMT; Matter of Valenzuela-Felix; parole

Penaranda v. Bondi, No. 23-6584 (2d Cir. Mar. 7, 2025)

• false testimony, good moral character, and INA § 101(f)(6); Loper Bright and star decisis; Matter of Fernandes; timely assertion of claims processing rule violation; deficient NTA; Wilkinson and non-LPR cancellation of removal

Mohammed v. Bondi, No. 24-3649 (6th Cir. Mar. 4, 2025)

• arson in violation of VA Code § 18.2-77; malice; INA § 101(a)(43)(E)(i) arson aggravated felony; federal accomplice liability; 18 U.S.C. § 2

Laguna Rivera v. U.S. Att'y Gen., No. 23-12398 (11th Cir. Mar. 5, 2025)

• prior precedent rule; persecution of family members; exhaustion; failure to raise arguments to the BIA; considering support affidavits after adverse credibility; harm in the past; political involvement in Nicaragua

Tian v. Bondi, No. 22-6053 (2d Cir. Mar. 5, 2025)

• political opinion; opposition to China’s property confiscation laws; pretextual arrest as persecution; pretextual prosecution; police beating; BIA failure to analyze material evidence

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Xia v. Scott, No. 23-3055 (8th Cir. Feb. 27, 2025)

• exceptions to Hague Act adoption; habitual residence; I-130 petition by adoptive parent; reasoned consideration by BIA

United States v. Parham, No. 23-4249 (4th Cir. Feb. 26, 2025)

• crime of violence; threat of sodomy accusation; physical force; sentence enhancement; robbery in violation of Va. Code § 18.2-58

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El Manyary  v. Bondi, No. 22-3102 (8th Cir. Feb. 21, 2025)

• in absentia motion to reopen; Campos-Chavez; stop-time rule; equitable tolling; sua sponte; exceptional circumstances for missing hearing; hearing notice in foreign language 

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Lapadat, et al. v. Bondi, No. 23-1745 (9th Cir. Feb. 12, 2025)

• past persecution; being shot; attempted kidnapping; death & rape threats; IJ mischaracterizing testimony; Roma; “gypsies”; pernicious maltreatment; no requirement for lasting injuries; disfavored group analysis for well founded fear; relevance of EU policy

Perez-Perez, et al. v. Bondi, No. 23-4240 (9th Cir. Feb. 10, 2025)

• FRAP 15(a)(2)(A); listing names of petitioners in case caption

Murillo-Chavez v. Bondi, No. 23-1997 (9th Cir. Feb. 13, 2025)

• firearms offense; INA § 237(a)(2)(C); antique firearms exception; divisibility; O.R.S. § 166.250; admitted in any status for LPR cancellation; stop-time rule; SIJ status; Supreme Court effectively overruling precedent; criminal mistreatment in violation of O.R.S. § 163.205; CIMT definition & analysis post-Loper Bright

Ikome v. Bondi, No. 22-60606 (5th Cir. Feb. 12, 2025)

• continuance; motion to remand; Patel &Wilkinson; jurisdiction to consider adjustment of status continuance; motion to remand where I-130 approved; due diligence  

Porter v. Bondi, No. 24-3125 (6th Cir. Jan. 24, 2025)

• possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine in violation of Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-248; no need for renumeration; CSA felony; methamphetamine isomers; drug divisibility

Sanches Alves v. Bondi, No. 24-1258 (1st Cir. Feb. 12, 2025)

• domestic violence-type asylum claim; nexus; personal dispute

Phimmady v. Bondi, No. 24-1330 (1st Cir. Feb. 10, 2025)

• sua sponte motion to reopen due to vacated conviction; BIA settled course of adjudication; using unpublished BIA decisions; diligence

Ferchichi v. Bondi, No. 23-1123 (8th Cir. Feb. 14, 2025)

• inadequate medical care; nexus; spina bifida; mixed motive; future persecution; Algeria

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Funez-Ortiz v. McHenry, No. 23-2290 (4th Cir. Feb. 4, 2025)

• CAT protection; BIA overturning IJ; under color of law; gangs wearing military uniform; acquiescence; presumption of regularity

Matter of De Jesus-Platon, 29 I&N Dec. 7 (BIA 2025)

• Cal. Pen Code § 1473.7 vacated conviction; post-conviction relief; Cal. Pen. Code § 18.5; Matter of Velasquez-Rios; CIMT; Cal. Pen Code § 422; motion to remand; procedural or substantive defect; noncitizen's burden

Becerril-Sanchez v. Bondi, No. 23-3349 (8th Cir. Feb. 6, 2025)

• fear of cartels and police in Mexico; harm in utero as past persecution; insufficient threats and beating for past persecution; motion to reopen and women in Mexico

United States v. Greenberg, No. 23-7168 (2d Cir. Feb. 3, 2025)

• criminal prosecution of immigration attorneys; 18 U.S.C. § 1546(a) ¶ 1; conspiracy to obtain documents through fraud

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Matter of Baeza-Galindo, 29 I&N Dec. 1 (BIA 2025)

• single scheme of criminal conduct; two or more CIMTs; temporal limitation; INA § 237(a)(2)(A)(ii); criminal intent

 Turner v. U.S. Att’y Gen., No. 22-11207 (11th Cir. Jan. 30, 2025)

• former INA 321(a)(3); derivative naturalization; present-perfect tense; legal separation; Loper Bright; Skidmore deference

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Aguilar-Quintanilla v. McHenry, No. 24-60142 (5th Cir. Jan. 24, 2024)

• CAT protection; removal does not moot CAT challenge; ICE facilitating return; suspected gang members in El Salvador; CAT even with adverse credibility; requirement to consider affidavits; requirement to actually consider evidence, rather than simply mention 

Villagomez v. McHenry, No. 23-3558 (9th Cir. Jan. 24, 2025)

• crime of violence; general intent crimes; battery resulting in substantial bodily harm under Nev. Rev. Stat. § 200.481(2)(b); mens rea; violent force; Johnson; Borden

Martinez v. Clark, No. 21-35023 (9th Cir. Dec. 27, 2024) (remand)

• detention; dangerousness; jurisdiction; mixed question of law and fact; INA § 236

Doe v. Becerra, 732 F.Supp.3d 1071 (N.D. Cal. 2024)

• prolonged detention; mandatory detention; conditions of detention; habeas; punitive detention; alternatives to detention; substantive due process

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