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Matter of A-B- and Matter of L-E-A-: Information and Resources

Former Attorney General Sessions Issued A Decision, Matter Of AB-, In Which He Attempted To Limit The Ability Of Survivors Of Gang And Gender Violence To ...

Matter of L-E-A-, 28 I&N Dec. 304 (A.G. 2021) - Department of Justice

§ 1158(b)(1)(A),. (B)(i).1 On July 29, 2019, then-Attorney General Barr issued a decision in this matter considering whether a family may ...

Attorney General Garland Vacates Matter of A-B- and Matter of L-E-A

199 (AG 2021), days before the end of the Trump administration, the attorney general issued a second decision elevating the nexus standard by ...

Matter of A-R-C-G-; Matter of A-B- I and II; and Matter of L-E-A

family violence claims and often simplified the adjudication of these cases. Matter of A-B-, 27 I&N Dec. 316 (A.G. 2018) (A-B- I). What it Held ...

Matter of L-E-A-, 27 I&N Dec. 40 (BIA 2017) - Department of Justice

at 218 (“[W]e must separate the assessment whether the applicant has ... Moreover, under section 208(b)(1)(B)(i) of the Act, membership in the.

Matter of L-E-A- | Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. (CLINIC)

CLINIC is counsel in the case of Matter of L-E-A-. On June 16, 2021, the Attorney General issued a decision, Matter of L-E-A- III, ...

Matter of A-B- - Harvard Law Review |

A survivor of domestic violence did not qualify for asylum based on her membership in a gender-based particular social group (PSG).

Matter of L-E-A- | Center for Gender and Refugee Studies

What is the government doing and why are we challenging it? In July 2019 the Attorney General intervened to overrule a 2017 Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) ...

Matter of A-B- | Center for Gender and Refugee Studies

What is the government doing and why are we challenging it? The Trump administration's Department of Justice issued several restrictive rulings that played a ...

Matter of A-B- Considerations | ILRC

In June 2018, the US Attorney General issued Matter of AB-, 27 I&N Dec. 316 (AG 2018), which threatens the viability of asylum claims by domestic violence ...

Matter of L-E-A- - Harvard Law Review |

... L. No. 89-236, 79 Stat. 911 (1965) (codified as amended in scattered sections of 8 U.S.C.); see 8 U.S.C. §§ 1101(a)(42), 1158(b)(1) (2018). The.

Practice Pointer: Matter of A-B- and Discretion

On June 11, 2018, the Attorney General (hereinafter A.G.) issued a precedential decision, Matter of A-B-, 27 I&N Dec.

AG decides Matter of L-E-A-, narrowing family-based PSGs

This Biden administration action revokes in its entirety the Trump-era policy identified in this entry. On June 16, 2021, Attorney General Garland issued a new ...

AG Sessions Issues Matter of A-B-, Overruling Matter of A-R-C-G

AILA's Asylum and Refugee Committee provides a Practice Alert featuring tips, resources, and feedback opportunities for practitioners ...

Why Matter of L-E- A-'s Definition of " by Danielle L. Schmalz Fullam

Attorney General Barr abruptly changed the course of asylum law in the United States on July 29, 2019, in his decision in Matter of L-E-A-.

3. Elements of Asylum Law - Immigration Equality

In Matter of Mogharrabi, the BIA set forth the following four elements that an applicant for asylum must show in order to establish a well-founded fear of ...

AG Sessions issues Matter of A-B-, restricting asylum claims based ...

Sessions largely rejects domestic and gang violence as grounds for asylum, opining that a claim based on the conduct of a private actor must show that the ...

The Matter of Ms. A.B.: Domestic Violence and Asylum

After surviving 15 years of unrelenting domestic violence, rape, and psychological violence at the hands of her husband, a Salvadoran woman ...

Domestic and Gang Violence Claims After Matter of A-B - Miller Mayer

Barr, the First Circuit held that Matter of A-B-'s categorical ... of Int'l L. 48 (2020), available at https://digitalcommons.law.scu ...

Matter of A-B- and Matter of L-E-A- Vacated! - LexisNexis

Attorney General Decisions The Attorney General has issued a decision in Matter of A-B-, 28 I&N Dec. 307 (A.G. 2021). (1) Matter of A-B-, ...