Immigration Review

Ep. 256 - Precedential Decisions from 3/17/2025 - 3/23/2025 (deeming asylum application abandoned for failure to include declaration; point of comparison of CSA and state drug schedule; individualized inquiry for hardship; credibility)

Matter of C-A-R-R-, 29 I&N Dec. 13 (BIA 2025)

  • incomplete I-589; deeming asylum application abandoned for failure to include asylum declaration; cocaine admission and good moral character


Matter of Dor, 29 I&N Dec. 20 (BIA 2025)

  • point of comparison of CSA and state drug schedule; INA § 237(a)(2)(B)(i); Brown; Mass. Gen. Law Ch. 94C § 32c(a); distribution of marijuana 


Duarte De Martinez v. Bondi, No. 24-1057 (1st Cir. Mar. 19, 2025)

  • individualized inquiry for exceptional and extremely unusual hardship; learning disability; inability to learn in foreign country; inability to learn foreign language; common hardship in the aggregate


Salinas v. Bondi, No. 23-2779 (8th Cir. Mar. 19, 2025)

  • point of comparison of CSA and state drug schedule; INA § 237(a)(2)(B)(i); North Dakota definition of marijuana; Cannabis sativa L


Singh v. Bondi, No. 23-1247 (9th Cir. Mar. 17, 2025)

  • credibility; Matter of R-K-K-; similar affidavits; DHS charts; Singh v. Garland distinguished; frivolous asylum finding; Mann Party; Sikh; India


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