On April 29, 2021, the Supreme Court issued its decision in Niz-Chavez v. Garland, No. 19-863 (U.S. Apr. 29, 2021). In Niz-Chavez, Justices Gorsuch and Barrett joined the Court’s historically “liberal” wing to rule in favor of Mr. Niz-Chavez, finding that he remained...
On December 14, 2020, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, which has authority over immigration cases in Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Utah, and Wyoming, issued a very favorable decision for asylum seekers: Addo v. Barr, No. 18-9560 (10th Cir....
On December 11, 2020, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals – the federal appeals court that covers Florida, Georgia, and Alabama – published the decision Dos Santos v. U.S. Att'y Gen., No. 19-12383 (11th Cir. Dec. 11, 2020). In the Dos Santos decision, the Eleventh...
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 proceedings. On...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
