After a hiatus resulting from the failure of EOIR’s computer servers, IRAC is pleased to release an updated version of its Index of Unpublished Decisions of the Board of Immigration Appeals.  The Index is organized by subject matter and contains links to helpful rulings selected from an ongoing review of more than 7,500 unpublished BIA

As many immigration attorneys already know, the Executive Office for Immigration Review is in the midst of a computer outage that has lasted more than a month. While the Board of Immigration Appeals has continued to issue decisions during the outage (see here), it has not made any decisions available for public review. Once the

Our featured unpublished BIA decision for March 2014 involves a deceptively complicated issue for noncitizens filing employment-based adjustment applications: whether an applicant has maintained “lawful status” for purposes of Sections 245(c) and 245(k) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). While often straightforward, such determinations can become complicated for noncitizens who submitted applications to or

IRAC has released the April 2014 update to its Index of Unpublished Decisions of the Board of Immigration Appeals, which now contains decisions issued through April 3. Individuals who have purchased the 2014 edition of Index may download the updated version for no additional charge. The Index now contains links to cases stating: * Descamps v. United States, 133

By Ben Winograd Our featured unpublished decision for February 2014 involves waivers of inadmissibility under Section 212(k) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, a little-known remedy available to noncitizens who unwittingly seek to enter the country on invalidly issued immigrant visas. The respondent in the case, Jin Hee Shin, A047 415 708 (BIA Feb. 4,