Immigration Review

A weekly podcast of immigration case summaries and practice insights from your host, Kevin A. Gregg, a partner at the law firm Kurzban Kurzban Tetzeli & Pratt P.A.

Each Monday, the Immigration Review podcast reviews the latest published opinions from the U.S. Supreme Court, the Board of Immigration Appeals, and all U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals—discussing some in depth, providing holdings for others, and always giving practical insights, rummaging through the week’s decisions so you don’t have to.

*Read about your host and the KKTP law firm here: https://www.kktplaw.com/attorney/gregg-kevin-a/

Immigration Review

Episodes

Ep. 242 - Precedential Decisions from 12/9/2024 - 12/15/2024 (crime of violence; H-1B & marijuana industry; revocation of I-130 petition; circumstance specific approach; aggravated felony rape; adverse credibility; family based particular social group)

Ep. 241 - Precedential Decisions from 12/2/2024 - 12/8/2024 (Senator Markey Immigrants' List event!; mental health; extraordinary circumstances exception to one-year asylum deadline; changed circumstances; aggregating all sources of torture; gangs)

Ep. 240 - Precedential Decisions from 11/25/2024 - 12/1/2024 (thank you Patrons!; CAT deferral; political power in Guinea; exhaustion of particularly serious crime argument before the BIA; MD. Crim. Code § 8-301(c)(2)(i) identity fraud)

Ep. 239 - Precedential Decisions from 11/18/2024 - 11/24/2024 (BIA notice of appeal deadlines; equitable tolling; diligence; timely objection to deficient NTA; retroactivity; federal definition of marijuana; hemp; realistic probability test)

Ep. 238 - Precedential Decisions from 11/11/2024 - 11/17/2024 (nexus to political opinion; church leaders; small business owners; death threats, extortion & past persecution; reasonable relocation; gang violence; unable or unwilling to protect)

Ep. 237 - Precedential Decisions from 11/4/2024 - 11/10/2024 (mental competency; M-A-M- safeguards; termination for regulator violations; serious reasons for believing serious non-political crime; probable cause; police acquiescence; failure to act)

Ep. 236 - Precedential Decisions from 10/28/2024 - 11/3/2024 (denaturalization; ineffective assistance of counsel; CIMT; elements of sentence enhancement; aging out qualifying relatives; hardship review; fraud; § 237(a)(1)(H) waiver & I-751 petition)

Ep. 235 - Precedential Decisions from 10/21/2024 - 10/27/2024 (past persecution; death threats; nexus; family membership; metering; injunction; credibility; hardship review; Haitian mental health claims)

Ep. 234 - Precedential Decisions from 10/14/2024 - 10/20/2024 (in absentia motion to reopen - exceptional circumstances; totality of circumstances; traffic accidents; past persecution; unfulfilled threats; NACARA; economic hardship; mixed question review)

Ep. 233 - Precedential Decisions from 10/7/2024 - 10/13/2024 (family-based past persecution claim; harm to family members as persecution; unable or unwilling to control only in home city in Mexico; Salvadoran men; resistance to gang recruitment)

Ep. 232 - Precedential Decisions from 9/30/2024 - 10/6/2024 (EB-3 visa; revoked I-140 petition; portability; credibility; Matter of R-K-K-; similar affidavits; DHS charts; relocation)

Ep. 231 - Precedential Decisions from 9/23/2024 - 9/29/2024 (Ukraine; Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction; wrongful removal; generic federal definition of methamphetamine; extradition; State Department & CAT)

Ep. 230 - Precedential Decisions from 9/16/2024 - 9/22/2024 (CIMT & retail theft; family, nexus & mixed motive; DHS non-opp to motion to remand; prolonged detention; FARO & aggravated felony obstruction of justice; extraordinary circumstances & reopening)

Ep. 229 - Precedential Decisions from 9/9/2024 - 9/15/2024 (failure to report as a child; manner of entry, jurisdiction & Patel; petty theft & CIMT; single scheme; pardons; Skidmore deference; fetus persecution)

Ep. 228 - Precedential Decisions from 9/2/2024 - 9/8/2024 (deficient NTA; claims processing rule; termination; IJ amending NTA; crime of violence; recklessness; Borden; Cal. Pen. Code § 245(a)(1) assault with a deadly weapon other than a firearm)

Ep. 227 - Precedential Decisions from 8/26/2024 - 9/1/2024 (reopening standard; attempted child abuse; jurisdiction - Patel, I-601 & I-751; nexus & harm in the U.S.; reasonable fear review; derivative U.S. citizenship)

Ep. 226 - Precedential Decisions from 8/19/2024 - 8/25/2024 (asylum; withholding of removal; CAT; imputed political opinion; substantial evidence; past persecution; nexus; corroborating evidence)

Ep. 225 - Precedential Decisions from 8/12/2024 - 8/18/2024 (vacated criminal conviction & reopening; murder; voluntary departure; temporary BIA members; nexus; police reports & discretion)

Ep. 224 - Precedential Decisions from 8/5/2024 - 8/11/2024 (denaturalization & estoppel; mental health & asylum; hardship review; attorney unpreparedness & continuances; particularly serious crimes; domestic violence & asylum; credibility)

Ep. 223 - Precedential Decisions from 7/29/2024 - 8/4/2024 (challenging DHS regulations; material support of terrorism & due process; naturalization delay; particularly serious crime; mental health issues; past persecution & Mann party)

Ep. 222 - Precedential Decisions from 7/22/2024 - 7/28/2024 (administrative notice of foreign law; credibility; derivative citizenship; best interests of the child; asylum & Angola; PFR venue; bonafide Egyptian marriage & pro se respondents)

Special Episode - Interview with Attorney Ira Kurzban (important cases from the Supreme Court's 2023-2024 Term; state of the judiciary; Immigrants' List & immigration advocacy)

Ep. 221 - Precedential Decisions from 7/15/2024 - 7/21/2024 (flight from ethnic cleansing & genocide; gang recruitment & PSGs; CIMT & prostitution; I-213 reliability; unfulfilled threat doctrine)

Ep. 220 - Precedential Decisions from 7/8/2024 - 7/14/2024 (naturalization; lawfully admitted for permanent residence; § 237(a)(1)(H) waiver; conditional LPR; pre-trial detention; confined as a result of conviction; persecution; continuance; admin close)

Special Episode - Interview with Attorney Eric Lee (lead counsel on the recent doctrine of consular nonreviewability Supreme Court case, Munoz v. Dept. of State)