National Immigration Project and Center for Gender & Refugee Studies, Practice Advisory – Fighting for a Day in Court: Understanding and Responding to Pretermission of Asylum Applications

Topics: Asylum / Withholding / CAT, Trainings & Guidance

Tags: 2025 Policies, Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA), Defensive, EOIR, I-589: Application for Asylum and for Withholding of Removal, Merits Prep, OPLA, Practice Advisories, Pretermission, Removal Proceedings, US Government Policy

Published on: 12-18-2025

Updated on: 12-18-2025

Practice advisory published by the National Immigration Project (NIPNLG) and Center for Gender & Refugee Studies (CGRS) on July 25, 2025 (updated August 27, 2025), discussing pretermission of asylum applications in immigration court in light of the March 2025 BIA decision in Matter of C-A-R-R-, 29 I&N Dec. 13 (BIA 2025) and April 2025 EOIR Policy Memorandum, Pretermission of Legally Insufficient Applications for Asylum (PM 25-28).

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