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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.
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 (BIA) is the body to whom litigants may appeal their decisions from immigration judges. Composed of 21 members appointed by the attorney general, BIA decisions are generally decided by panels of three of its members. [18]
He has been a special agent for the former Immigration and Naturalization Service, a border patrol officer for U.S. Customs and Border Protection and an acting director of U.S. Immigration and ...
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 ...
The rules surrounding it were only articulated in Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) decisions. Some important decisions were: [3] Matter of Vargas-Molina (1971) recognized that an Immigration Judge (IJ) could discretionarily allow an alien to withdraw the application for admission during removal proceedings.
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The United States immigration courts, immigration judges, and the Board of Immigration Appeals, which hears appeals from them, are part of the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) within the United States Department of Justice. (USCIS is part of the Department of Homeland Security.) [7]