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...
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...