Moncada v. Rubio, No. 23-55803 (9th Cir. Aug. 20, 2025)

• birthright citizenship; diplomatic immunity; consul; attaché; Blue List; Department of State certificate of immunity; Wong Kim Ark

Matter of Buri Mora, 29 I&N Dec. 186 (BIA 2025)

• extreme and exceptionally unusual hardship; financial hardship; autism in qualifying relative; qualifying relative ability to obtain state benefits and Medicaid

Matter of O-Y-A-E-, 29 I&N Dec. 190 (BIA 2025)

• CAT; counterintelligence officer; EU sanction; IJ factual error; Venezuela 

Matter of G-C-I-, 29 I&N Dec. 176 (BIA 2025)

• credibility; continuances; corroboration; implausibility; generalized country conditions; Georgia

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Guandique-De Romero v. Bondi, No. 24-1154 (4th Cir. Aug. 13, 2025)

• ineffective assistance; competence; fundamentally fair; wealth-based PSGs; women; family; reopening; prejudice

Rivas de Nolasco v. Bondi, No. 22-1176 (4th Cir. Aug. 14, 2025)

• women; Riley & PFR mid-proceedings; nexus; children & gangs

Alvarez Ronquillo v. Bondi, No. 24-1324 (4th Cir. Aug. 15, 2025)

• firearms trafficking; 101(a)(43)(C) aggravated felony; 18 U.S.C. § 922(a)(1)(A); consideration

Matter of Salas Pena, 29 I&N Dec. 173 (BIA 2025)

• bond; dangerousness; police reports; cocaine trafficking

Hernandez Flores v. Bondi, No. 23-6714 (2d Cir. Aug. 14, 2025)

• ineffective assistance; failure to advise of qualifying relative; marriage in proceedings; continuance; Patel

Romero-Lozano v. Garland, No. 23-60638 (5th Cir. Aug. 12, 2025)

• withholding only; reinstatement; Riley; reinstate mandate

Montiel Rubio v. Bondi, No. 24-60392 (5th Cir. Aug. 13, 2025)

• collectivos; persecution; getting shot; death threats; gassed; Venezuela

Suchite-Salguero v. Att'y Gen. U.S., No. 24-1970 (3d Cir. Aug. 14, 2025)

• new & previous unavailable before IJ; former hearing; Kisor; harmless error; Chenery; baby during appeal

Roman Sanchez v. Att'y Gen. U.S., No. 242-279 (3d Cir. Aug. 15, 2025)

• GMC; barring testimony; Castillo-Perez presumption; DUI

Rivas-Jarquin v. Bondi, No. 24-2386 (7th Cir. Aug. 11, 2025)

• pattern or practice; medical professionals; opposition to Sandinistas; Nicaragua

Santos Mendoza v. Bondi, No. 24-2796 (7th Cir. Aug. 14, 2025)

• cancellation; psychological hardship to children; financial hardship; Wilkinson

Martinez-Martinez v. Bondi, No. 24-3281 (7th Cir. Aug. 14, 2025)

• commune violence; unable or unwilling; relocation; Honduras

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Hernandez Guardado v. Bondi, No. 23-92286 (4th Cir. Aug. 5, 2025) 

• particular social group; women; anti-circularity not determinative; El Salvador 

Matter of Akhmedov, 29 I&N Dec. 166 (BIA 2025) 

• bond; flight risk; failure to timely file change of address EOIR-33

Matter of Garcia Martinez, 29 I&N Dec. 169 (BIA 2025) 

• filing fees; fee waiver; presumptions

Garcia Pinach v. Bondi, No. 22-6421 (2d Cir. Aug. 4, 2025) 

• misdemeanor sexual contact with a minor; NYPL § 130.60(2); aggravated felony; Loper Bright & star decisis; standard of review for equitable tolling

Wassily v. Bondi; Velasquez Arreaga v. Bondi, Nos. 22-6247_23-6289 (2d Cir. Aug. 7, 2025) 

• adjustment of status for asylees; INA § 209; T-C-A-; statutory interpretation; definition of granted & status; termination of asylum status

Fiddler v. Bondi, No. 24-2604 (7th Cir. Aug. 7, 2025) 

• CAT purpose; specific intent to torture; mental health; police shootings; Jamaica

Cortez, et al. v. Bondi, No. 24-9551 (10th Cir. Aug. 5, 2025) 

•  failure to sign certificate of service; ECAS; BIA rules; form instructions

Chavez-Govea v. Bondi, No. 24-9551 (10th Cir. Aug. 5, 2025) 

• IJ asylum filing deadline; continuance; diligence; abuse of discretion; due process; motion to remand

Lopez-Martinez v. Bondi, No. 23-10105 (11th Cir. Aug. 6, 2025) 

• substantial evidence and arbitrary and capricious standards of review; exceptional and extremely unusual hardship; Wilkinson; overview of standards of review; ADHD, denial of schooling, and whether medications are reasonably available 

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Matter of Felix-Figueroa, 29 I&N Dec. 157 (BIA 2025)

• isomers; possession of methamphetamine; realistic probability test; burdens

Rivera Samayoa v. Bondi, No. 24-1432 (1st Cir. July 28, 2025)

• cancellation of removal; exceptional and extremely unusual hardship; mixed questions of law and fact; discretionary relief; cumulative hardship analysis

Real v. U.S. Att’y Gen., No. 24-1545 (3d Cir. July 30, 2025)

• due process; extraordinary circumstances; one-year asylum deadline; jurisdiction; INA § 208(a)(2)(D); INA § 203(a)(3) 

Navarro v. Bondi, No. 24-1253 (4th Cir. July 31, 2025)

• MS-13; CAT protection; credibility; omissions; expert evidence; more likely than not; issue exhaustion.  

Sanchez-Banos v. Bondi, No. 24-2241 (8th Cir. Aug. 1, 2025)

•  administrative closure; Avetisyan factors; failure to submit hardship evidence

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Da Silva Borges v. Bondi, No. 24-1695 (1st Cir. July 18, 2025)

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

Perez Cruz v. Bondi, No. 24-2865 (9th Cir. July 21, 2025)

·       CAT protection; Gulf Cartel; cooperation with U.S. government; presumption of regularity; considering entire record; audio issues; due process; prejudice; Mexico

Singh v. Bondi, No. 23-9598 (10th Cir. July 22, 2025)

·       mental health; competency; hunger strike; continuance

Cano-Gutierrez v. Bondi, No. 24-1616 (1st Cir. July 24, 2025)

·       asylum; CAT protection; nexus; particular social group; generalized violence; issue exhaustion; waiver of issues

Gomez-Gabriel v. U.S. Atty Gen., No. 24-2559 (3d Cir. July 24, 2025)

·       Summary affirmance; 8 C.F.R. § 1003.1(e)(4); issue exhaustion; 8 U.S.C. § 1252(d)(1); nexus; gang violence; indigenous 

Cabello Garcia v. USCIS, No. 23-35267 (9th Cir. July 22, 2025)

·       8 U.S.C. § 1252(a)(2)(B)(i); U visa adjustment of status; 8 U.S.C. § 1255(m); medical exam; discretionary relief; collateral challenge; adjustment of status; Administrative Procedure Act; due process; Patel v. Garland

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Qatanani v. Att'y Gen. U.S., No. 24-1849 (3d Cir. July 15, 2025) 

• BIA self-certification; separation of powers; rescission; grant of LPR status;  Kisor deference; constitutional violation & discretionary adjustment of status; due process

Matter of C-M-M-, 29 I&N Dec. 141 (BIA 2025) 

• DHS meeting bond burden; danger; flight risk; withholding-only; unlawful reentries  

Matter of K-E-S-G-, 29 I&N Dec. 145 (BIA 2025) 

• particularity; sex; nationality; women viewed as property; societal views 

Mejia-Hernandez v. Bondi, No. 23-1508 (7th Cir. July 17, 2025) 

• family-based nexus; revenge; unable or unwilling; well-founded fear; threats rising to the level of past-persecution; murder of family members; untimely assertion of deficient NTA claims processing rule; Honduras

Singh v. Bondi, No 24-1602 (7th Cir. July 18, 2025) 

• reissuing BIA decisions to petition for review; ineffective assistance of counsel; Lozada  

Goncalves Leao v. Bondi, No. 24-1239 (1st Cir. July 14, 2025) 

• exceptional and extremely unusual hardship review; child with drug issues; Monreal; absence of medical expert 

Alay v. Bondi, No. 24-1299 (1st Cir. July 16, 2025) 

• hardship review; children knowing mother is in dangerous situation; individualized analysis; Guatemala 

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Matter of E-Z-, 29 I&N Dec. 123 (BIA 2025). 

• CAT protection; returnees from the United States; anti Ukraine war political opinion; detention in Russia 

Matter of Gonzalez Jimenez, 29 I&N Dec. 129 (BIA 2025) 

• discretion; adverse factors; DUI; false tax information; false social security number; relying on advice of professionals 

Matter of S-S-, 29 I&N Dec. 136 (BIA 2025) 

• CAT protection; prison conditions in Haiti; anecdotal torture; mental health in Haiti; specific intent to torture 

Castejon-Paz and Cerrato-Barahona v. Bondi, Nos. 22-6024, 22-6349 (2d Cir. July 8, 2025) 

• withholding of removal review; claims processing rule; 30-day petition for review deadline; reinstatement; final order of removal; no-reasonable fear challenge; Riley 

Garcia-Pascual v. Bondi, No. 20-2529 (8th Cir. July 7, 2025) 

• economic hardship; difficulty of child visiting father abroad; non-LPR cancellation of removal  

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Tipan Lopez v. Att'y Gen. U.S., No. 24-1444 (3d Cir. June 30, 2025) 

• nexus; subordinate; religion; Evangelical Christian; M-R-M-S-; incorporation of international law; no animus requirement; fervent but unsuccessful resistance to torture can be acquiescence; Ecuador 

Matter of A-A-F-V-, 29 I&N Dec. 118 (BIA 2025) 

• suspected gang members with tattoos; bisexual individuals; state exception policy in El Salvador; prison conditions; sharing criminal information with El Salvador;  standard of review; use of statistical information 

Lanoue v. Att’y Gen. U.S., No. 24-2583 (3d Cir. July 1, 2025) 

• deceit; INA § 101(a)(43)(M)(i); 18 U.S.C. § 287; 18 U.S.C. § 2; false claims to Veterans Affairs; $10,000 amount; restitution; retroactive INA § 212(h) waiver; not an applicant for admission when under investigation  

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