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Notes: Administrative Closure Summary, Notes, & Statutes (PDF)
- Administrative Closure Summary, Notes, & Statutes (Word Doc)
- Quick Take: Fun with Castro-Tum. Let’s give the IJs and BIA members back their independent discretion, per the statute.
Brief: Matter of Atevisyan, 25 I&N Dec. 688 (BIA 2012) (PDF)
- Matter of Atevisyan, 25 I&N Dec. 688 (BIA 2012) (Word Doc)
- Quick Take: Sometimes administrative closure is the most efficient way to go (and it’s assumed that it’s within the authority of IJs/the BIA to choose this approach to docket management).
Brief: Zuniga Romero v. Barr, No. 18-1850 (4th Cir. 8.29.19) (PDF)
- Zuniga Romero v. Barr, No. 18-1850 (4th Cir. 8.29.19) (Word Doc)
- Quick Take: 4th Circuit responds to Barr’s Castro-Tum (2018), which forbade IJs and BIA members from using administrative closure (except where expressly permitted by statute). Circuit court’s holding reaffirms the appropriateness of admin closure & the authority of adjudicators to employ it where they discern it’s necessary.
Brief: Matter of Castro-Tum, 27 I&N Dec. 271 (A.G. 2018) (PDF)
- Matter of Castro-Tum, 27 I&N Dec. 271 (A.G. 2018) (Word Doc)
- Quick Take: Nope, you can’t do that here.
Sanchez v. A.G., 997 F.3d 113 (3d Cir. 2021): IJs and BIA have the general authority to administratively close cases under the regulations. (Word Doc Summary) (PDF Summary)
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