The Seventh Circuit, in a scathing opinion, reaffirmed an Immigration Judge’s authority to grant a waiver to a U visa applicant, and reprimanded the Board of Immigration Appeals for ignoring the court’s prior decision in this matter. “We have never before encountered defiance of a remand order, and we hope never to see it again. Members of the Board must count themselves lucky that Baez-Sanchez has not asked us to hold them in contempt, with all the consequences that possibility entails.”

The decision in Baez Sanchez v. Barr can be found here:

http://media.ca7.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/rssExec.pl?Submit=Display&Path=Y2020/D01-23/C:19-1642:J:Easterbrook:aut:T:fnOp:N:2462983:S:0

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