Tag Archives: U.S. Immigration Law

Immigration law is a major area of administrative law in the United States. NLJ editor N.A. Ferrell, an immigration law research specialist and writer, sometimes publishes articles in this area.

June 8, 2020

Jun 2020

Matter of Man, 12 I&N Dec. 305 (BIA 1967) – BIA Hong Kong Precedent

Nicholas A. Ferrell

Studying a long-forgotten 1967 Board of Immigration Appeals precedent decision denying an application from withholding of deportation filed by an alien from Hong Kong.

May 17, 2020

May 2020

The Matter of Great Wall – But Not Those Walls

Nicholas A. Ferrell

A post on an immigration issue involving a great wall. However, this is not about proposals for a border wall, but instead about an immigration precedent decision titled Matter of Great Wall, 16 I&N Dec. 156 (Acting R.C. 1977).