US Citizenship and Immigration Services (“USCIS”) has announced a postponement to the planned implementation date of a policy which would call for USCIS issuance of Notices to Appear – also called “NTAs,” the charging document beginning removal proceedings – in far more cases. Instead of September 11, 2018, the new policy will now only become effective until the agency has time to complete and issue operational guidance to its officers on how this will be implemented – when this will happen is unspecified.
As we discussed in an earlier post