Tag: Nassau Lawyer

Dan Drucker was recently published in the Nassau Lawyer, the Nassau County Bar Association’s newsletter, where he discussed the case of Matter of H-A-A-V-, an immigration lawsuit with alarming implications for asylum seekers. In it, the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) ruled that a judge could pretermit an asylum application if the judge believed the respondent did not present a prima facie claim for relief. In other words, if an asylum seeker was unable to convince a judge they had an asylum claim on their face, the judge could deny it without an opportunity for appeal or trial.

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