DOJ Memo Offers Hope for Non-Priority Removal Cases: Key Details Inside (Full Transcript)

Speaker 1: Great news, guys. If you're in removal or if you have a removal order that was issued against you years ago, pay attention to the information that I'm going to share with you in this one. On April 3rd, the Department of Justice issued a memo to ICE attorneys directing them how to settle cases with people who are in removal proceedings or those who had removal orders issued against them from years ago. Firstly, they're going to put your case in a bucket, priority cases versus non-priority cases. The priority cases are those that have serious background problems, public safety concerns, national security issue concerns, fraud and some other things potentially on the record. Those are priority cases. They are not looking to settle those cases, although they say in the memo that they will consider it, but they are not looking to do that. However, for everyone else, they're now grouping you guys into what's considered non-priority cases. If you're a non-priority case, their number one goal, as they say in this memo, and I'm going to pull it up here shortly for you, the number one goal that they have is to terminate proceedings against you and move you off their docket, which means that you will be moved out of immigration court jurisdiction. That is huge because for many of you, what that means is that now you're able to maybe go back to USCIS to finish up the green card process and get a green card or file that waiver and leave and go overseas for an embassy interview. Getting your proceedings terminated is huge. The other thing that you need to consider is this. If you're actively in court right now and you have a hearing coming up in the distant future because there's a backlog in immigration court, consider doing this prosecutorial discretion request so that you can get your matter terminated sooner rather than later. Also, if you have a removal order issued against you, or you may have accepted voluntary departure years ago, but you're still here in the US, that order converted into a removal order when you did not leave the US. Therefore, yours is a case that should be considered for prosecutorial discretion as well to reopen and terminate proceedings against you. This is not available to some people. Get your case looked at by a professional. We do these prosecutorial discretion requests for clients all over the US. It doesn't matter where you're living in the US. We can take a look at your case and see how we might be able to assist you with this. Reach out. Again, this doesn't apply to everyone in removal, only some people.