AILA Doc No. 15021763 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, February 17, 2015 WASHINGTON, DC -The American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) issued the following statement from its President Leslie A. Holman regarding the decision by Texas federal judge Andrew Hanen to grant the request for a temporary injunction against the implementation of President Obama’s Deferred Action for…
AILA Doc. No. 15020642 (Posted 2/5/15) USCIS is taking numerous steps to respond to increasing humanitarian caseloads, including increasing staffing levels and re-prioritizing applications for interview scheduling. The USCIS Asylum Division is hiring an additional 175 asylum officers, increasing the number of authorized asylum officer positions to 448. This represents a 65% increase since July…
Source: U.S. State Department Published: January 30, 2015 AILA Doc. No. 15020348. (Posted 2/3/15) The Department of State (http://www.state.gov/j/prm/) is pleased to announce a new in-country refugee and parole program for certain qualified minors in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. The program will allow certain parents who are lawfully present in the U.S. to request…
AILA Doc No. 15012747 Dated January 27, 2015 (20 Jan 2015) During the first quarter of FY 2015 (October – December), there has been a drop in the disposition times of cases in the U.S. Immigration Court from some key Central American countries. According to the latest case-by-case court records obtained by the Transactional Records…
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