On behalf of Kurzban Kurzban Tetzeli and Pratt P.A. | Nov 24, 2020 | Immigration Review
Expert testimony may make all the difference in an asylum case. Knowing how to present expert testimony – and what is required to qualify an expert in court – is therefore one of the most important things an immigration attorney must do during removal...
On behalf of Kurzban Kurzban Tetzeli and Pratt P.A. | Oct 19, 2020 | Immigration Review
On October 13, 2020, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit published the decision Hincapie-Zapata v. U.S. Att’y Gen. In this decision, the Eleventh Circuit held that providing “funds” such as money to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Fuerzas...
On behalf of Kurzban Kurzban Tetzeli and Pratt P.A. | Oct 12, 2020 | Immigration Review
Oct. 10, 2020 This BIA recently published a favorable decision that impacts nearly all noncitizens placed in immigration court removal proceedings with criminal convictions. In Matter of Voss, 28 I&N Dec. 107 (BIA 2020), the BIA held “if a criminal conviction was...
On behalf of Kurzban Kurzban Tetzeli and Pratt P.A. | Sep 21, 2020 | Immigration Review
On September 14, 2020 in Ramos et al. v. Wolf et al., a split panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit vacated a preliminary injunction issued in the Northern District of California, barring implementation of DHS’s decisions to terminate the Temporary...
On behalf of Kurzban Kurzban Tetzeli and Pratt P.A. | Sep 15, 2020 | Immigration Review
KKTP has always been a nationwide law firm, and in August 2020, opened its Southern California office based in San Diego, California! If you or someone you know has an immigration issue in California (or anywhere else in the U.S. or abroad), please contact our firm...
On behalf of Kurzban Kurzban Tetzeli and Pratt P.A. | Jul 15, 2020 | Immigration Review
Our firm was proud to represent the plaintiffs in Canal A Media v. USCIS, a recent decision from a federal appeals court. The case involves complex questions of what is called “jurisdiction”—a court’s power to consider a party’s claims in immigration cases. This case...
On behalf of Kurzban Kurzban Tetzeli and Pratt P.A. | Jul 9, 2020 | Immigration Review
For the past three decades, immigration judges and the Board of Immigration Appeals have used a tool known as “administrative closure” to temporarily remove cases from their dockets when the noncitizen was pursuing other forms of relief or immigration benefits with a...
On behalf of Kurzban Kurzban Tetzeli and Pratt P.A. | Jul 9, 2020 | Immigration Review
In this case, the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”), which is kind of like the “Supreme Court of Immigration Judges,” held that a noncitizen who conspires to engage in marriage fraud to obtain a K-1 fiancé visa is barred from obtaining an immigration visa petition...
