Does the NCSC discriminate against lawyers?

Tuesday, June 11th, 2013

As I have written about before, USCIS has a National Customer Service Center (NCSC) where customers can call to ask about the status of their cases through an 800 number, (800) 375-5283. Recently a former client came to see me about delays in a benefit he was seeking and we discussed suing USCIS because of the delay. While in my office, he said he wanted to call the “800 number” to see if there had been any late-breaking progress in…

EOIR Backs off a Bad Idea

Tuesday, September 21st, 2010

On August 30, 2010, the Executive Office for Immigration Review, the body that contains the immigration courts and Board of Immigration Appeals announced that it was changing the way people can access court information through their telephone number, 1-800-898-7180. The way it is done is by calling and entering an aliens identification number, their “Alien Number,: also called their “A-number.” Then you could hear about court dates for pending cases and outcomes in concluded cases. The implementation of the system…