Executive Office for Immigration Review Seeks to Speed Up Case Disposition and Reduce Backlogs
As Fox News reports, the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) issued new measures and performance metrics yesterday that will prioritize certain immigration cases in an effort to reduce the backlog of cases in the immigration courts.
On December 6, 2017, Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued a memorandum to all EOIR employees outlining several principles to follow to ensure that the adjudication of immigration court cases serves the national interest. It also provided that the Director of EOIR may issue further guidance to ensure the achievement of those principles. In response, a memo listing guidelines was sent yesterday by John McHenry, the director of the Justice Department’s Executive Office for Immigration Review, to the Office of Chief Immigration Judge, all immigration judges, all court administrators and all immigration court staff. Here is the memo: Download Case Priorities and Immigration Court Performance Measures.01.17.18
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