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The Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) issued a major decision today, Matter of Delcarmen-Lara. This decision completely changes the legal consequences of traveling on advance parole. For more than a decade, immigration lawyers relied on Matter of Arrabally and Yerrabelly (2012), which held that a person who left the United States using advance parole had not made a "departure" for purposes of the unlawful presence bars. That interpretation allowed many applicants with pendin

The U.S. Supreme Court recently issued an important immigration decision affecting permanent residents (green card holders) who travel outside the United States after being charged with certain crimes. In Blanche v. Lau, the Supreme Court ruled that green card holders who travel outside the United States may face additional immigration scrutiny when returning if they have been charged with certain crimes listed in the immigration laws. The Legal Issue Permanent residents are

Frequent travelers know that immigration officers check your bags and passport when you enter a country, but there are no such checks when you leave. For passengers leaving the U.S. from now on, that is no longer true. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) have been quietly expanding the use of biometric exit screening to check travelers' identity as they leave the United States. Recent regulatory changes now give DHS more auth