What does IJ stand for?

In a letter to the youngster, immigration judge Justice Sacks said that he had granted his appeal on asylum and human rights grounds.

Leonardo Leyva, 20, received a notice to appear before an immigration judge for a hearing, said Ivan Ortiz, a spokesman for U.

Immigration judge, Judith Gleeson, joked in the official ruling that the cat 'need no longer fear having to adapt to Bolivian mice'.

Lawyers will refile a motion by Wednesday to halt his extradition and reopen his case, his attorney John Broadley told AFP hours after a US immigration judge lifted a stay of deportation against the 89-year-old Ukrainian-born Demjanjuk.

In Immigration Judge Francis Cramer's order denying asylum, he said the man “was never physically harmed” by the rape.

In the 19 immigration courts that handled almost 90 percent of asylum cases from October 1994 through April 2007, nine factors affected variability in asylum outcomes: (1) filed affirmatively (originally with DHS at his/her own initiative) or defensively (with DOJ, if in removal proceedings); (2) applicant's nationality; (3) time period of the asylum decision; (4) representation; (5) applied within 1 year of entry to the United States; (6) claimed dependents on the application; (7) had ever been detained (defensive cases only); (8) gender of the immigration judge and (9) length of experience as an immigration judge.

Circuit Court of Appeals ordered an immigration judge to reconsider the case of Damion Bromfield, who is seeking something akin to political asylum 15 years after he first came to the U.

In cases not yet heard, lawyers whose hearing is assigned to a Bushie immigration judge should file a motion for recusal.