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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.
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 ...
Form I-290B, Notice of Appeal or Motion, can be used for three purposes: [2] To file an appeal with the AAO; To file a motion to reconsider a decision; To file a motion to reopen a decision; The key difference between appeals and motions is that appeals go to the AAO, i.e., a higher authority than the one that made the decision being appealed.
The Board of Immigration Appeals affirmed the revocation, affirming that USCIS’s determination that the husband had entered into a prior sham marriage that would have prevented the initial visa ...
Beyond the BIA, decisions may be appealed in the United States court of appeals for the jurisdiction where the removal proceeding was held. There is more flexibility regarding the sort of evidence that may be presented in these appeals but the court generally focuses on whether the original BIA decision was made correctly based on the ...
A federal appeals court Tuesday night ordered that a contentious new Texas immigration law be paused just hours after the Supreme Court said it could go into effect.. A three-judge panel of the ...
Composed of 21 members appointed by the attorney general, BIA decisions are generally decided by panels of three of its members. [18] Unlike courts of appeals in the state and federal systems, the BIA rarely holds oral arguments on appeals. [19] Instead, the BIA conducts a "paper review" of the materials, before issuing a written decision.
Either party (the alien or the government prosecutor) may appeal (by legal brief, not in person) an immigration judge's decision to the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA). If an alien fails to appear for any immigration hearing, such person is usually ordered removed in absentia. [6]