How To By no means Miss A Briefing Schedule From The Board of Immigration Appeals

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How To Never Miss A Briefing Schedule From The Board of Immigration Appeals

Ben Winograd, IRAC, Jan. 30, 2025

“Two occasions from current weeks make it extra essential than ever that attorneys not miss a briefing schedule from the Board of Immigration Appeals. First, in Matter of Arciniegas-Patino, 28 I&N Dec. 883 (BIA 2025), the Board held that an legal professional’s failure to observe his or her inbox, together with the spam folder, doesn’t excuse a subsequent failure to adjust to a briefing deadline. Second, the Board up to date its practice manual to state that preliminary requests for briefing extensions is not going to be granted as a matter in fact. Given the extreme penalties of lacking a briefing schedule, attorneys shouldn’t passively depend on the mail (whether or not paper or digital) to be taught when the Board has set a briefing schedule. They need to proactively monitor their circumstances to independently be taught when a briefing schedule has been issued. Fortuitously, there’s a easy manner to take action that ought to not take greater than 5 minutes a day. I’ve been following these steps for years, and going ahead, the failure to take action could also be considered ineffective help of counsel. …”