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The Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) is an administrative appellate body within the Executive Office for Immigration Review of the United States Department of Justice responsible for reviewing decisions of the U.S. immigration courts and certain actions of U.S. Citizenship Immigration Services, U.S Customs and Border Protection, and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
The Executive Office for Immigration Review ( EOIR) is a sub-agency of the United States Department of Justice whose chief function is to conduct removal proceedings in immigration courts and adjudicate appeals arising from the proceedings. These administrative proceedings determine the removability and admissibility of individuals in the ...
Of the USCIS immigration forms, decisions on the two forms Form I-130 (family-based immigration, the F and IR categories) and the widower subcategory for Form I-360 (special immigrants, the EB-4 category), must be appealed through the EOIR-29 (Notice of Appeal to the Board of Immigration Appeals from a Decision of an Immigration Officer) to the ...
In an email sent last month and obtained by NBC News, Sheila McNulty, chief judge of the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR), the DOJ division that oversees the immigration courts ...
An immigration judge, formerly known as a special inquiry officer, [1] is an employee of the United States Department of Justice. [2] An immigration judge decides cases of aliens in various types of removal proceedings. [3] [4] During the proceedings, an immigration judge may grant any type of immigration relief or benefit to a noncitizen ...
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Persons in removal proceedings are called "respondents." Cases are decided by immigration judges, who are appointed by the Attorney General and are part of the Department of Justice. Removal proceedings are prosecuted by attorneys from the Department of Homeland Security ("DHS"), or more specifically, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
The Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 ( IIRIRA or IIRAIRA) [2] [3] made major changes to the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). IIRIRA's changes became effective on April 1, 1997. [1] Former United States President Bill Clinton asserted that the legislation strengthened "the rule of law by cracking down on ...