Decision date: 2019-08-29

Holding that 8 C.F.R. §§ 1003.10(b) and 1003.1(d)(1)(ii) confer on Immigration Judges and the Board of Immigration Appeals the general authority to administratively close cases, and thus the Attorney General's interpretation of those statutory provisions in Matter of Castro-Tum, 27 I. & N. Dec. 271 (A.G. 2018) was in error.

Publication Status: Published

Case judge: Agee, Floyd, Thacker

Decision: Romero v. Barr, 937 F.3d 282 (4th Cir. 2019)