Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Immigration Court Relief - Asylum and Convention Against Torture

The Executive Office of Immigration Review (EOIR) has published its 2010 Statistical Yearbook. The Boston Immigration Court Judges have granted asylum in 45% of the cases before the Court, a little below the national average of 51%. The largest number of grants of relief were for residents of China, Ethiopia, India, Colombia and Nepal.  The Statistical Yearbook makes clear that grants for relief under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”) are extremely rare.  Only 489 of over 24,000 applications for relief under the Convention have been granted.  Glickman Turley is proud of its recent success in obtaining relief for a Guatemalan national under the Convention Against Torture.