Immigration Appeals
This government body hears most appeals from immigration judges.
What is the Board of Immigration Appeals?
This agency adjudicates most immigration benefit applications, including naturalization and adjustment of status.
What is U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services?
This immigrant visa category is available to spouses, parents, and unmarried children under 21 of U.S. citizens without annual numerical limits.
What is the immediate relative category?
This charging document initiates removal proceedings against an alien?
What is a Notice to Appear (NTA)?
This famous immigration station in New York Harbor processed more than 12 million immigrants between 1892 and 1954.
What is Ellis Island?
This type of motion asks the immigration court to consider new evidence that was unavailable at the original hearing.
What is a motion to reopen?
This Department of Justice office oversees the immigration courts and the Board of Immigration Appeals.
What is the Executive Office for Immigration Review?
This protection allows certain individuals from designated countries to remain temporarily in the United States because of conditions in their home country.
What is Temporary Protected Status (TPS)?
This statute requires mandatory detention of certain noncitizens convicted of specified offenses.
What is INA 236(c)?
This U.S. amendment, ratified in 1868, established birthright citizenship.
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
This case recognized female genital mutilation as a basis for asylum.
What is Matter of Kasinga?
This ICE division investigates immigration-related crimes, human trafficking, and transnational criminal organizations.
What is Homeland Security Investigations (HSI)?
This protection may be granted to individuals who fear persecution in their home country based on a protected ground.
What is asylum?
This international treaty-based protection prohibits removal to a country where the respondent is more likely than not to be tortured.
What is protection under the Convention Against Torture?
This physicist immigrated to the United States in 1933 after leaving Germany.
Who is Albert Einstein?
This Attorney General/BIA precedent reshaped analysis of domestic-violence based asylum claims.
What is Matter of A-B-?
This center manages immigrant visa processing after petition approval.
What is the National Visa Center (NVC)?
This process allows eligible applicants to obtain permanent residence without leaving the United States.
What is adjustment of status?
This Supreme Court case first addressed whether a defective NTA lacking time and place information triggers the stop-time rule.
What is Pereria v. Sessions?
This food, often associated with New York City, was popularized in America by Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe.
What is a Bagel?
This case is frequently cited for the requirements of social distinction and particularity in PSG analysis.
What is Matter of M-E-V-G-?
This USCIS component oversees refugee processing and asylum adjudications.
What is the Refugee, Asylum and International Operations Directorate (RAIO)?
This visa is commonly issued to specialty occupation workers in fields such as engineering, accounting, and information technology.
What is the H-1B visa?
This is the only relief available to an individual convicted of an aggravated felony.
What is the Deferral of Removal Under Convention Against Torture?
This 1882 law was the first major U.S. law restricting immigration based on nationality.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?