It’s been more than a decade since the massive immigrants’ rights marches of 2006, but the images remain palpable. Millions of immigrants and their allies took to the streets in the country’s major urban centers and small towns alike. Had it been enacted, Representative James Sensenbrenner’s infamous bill, H.R. 4437, would have criminalized presence in the United States in violation of immigration law. Today, the House Judiciary Committee takes up a bill that revives Sensenbrenner’s failed attempt. The Michael Davis, Jr. and Danny Oliver in Honor of State and Local Law Enforcement Act, H.R. [...]
BIA: Person leaving on “advance parole” not subject to 3 or 10 year unlawful presence bars
Today, guest blogger Toni Maschler, an attorney at Bromberg, Kohler Maya, & Maschler in Washington, DC, joins crImmigration.com to discuss the BIA’s recent decision regarding advance parole. Matter of Arrabally and Yerrabelly, decided April 17, 2012 by a three-judge panel at the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA), held that a couple with pending applications for permanent residence did not “depart” the U.S. when they traveled abroad with Advance Parole. Matter of Arrabally, 25 I&N Dec. 771 (BIA 2012) (Wendtland, Greer, and Pauley, Board members, with Pauley dissenting). Although [...]