The COVID Project
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The record
- Jurisdiction
- United States Department of Justice, EOIR (federal agency; administrative tribunal)
- Level
- Federal
- Authority
- 8 C.F.R. 1003.9(b)(3), 1003.18
- Issued
- 2020-05-27 May 27, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-03-18 (postponements began) through 2020-06-12 and rolling extensions (read as 2020-03-18)
- End
- Non-detained dockets resumed court by court from June-July 2020 with continued postponements at many courts into 2021 (read as 2021-09-30)
- In force
- Mar. 18, 2020 to Sept. 30, 2021
- Quarters
- 2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Courts and public offices
- Addressees
- respondents, counsel, DHS trial attorneys
- employers of respondents (by consequence)
- Functions reached
- CRT: a federal tribunal's nationwide suspension of in-person non-detained proceedings from March 18, 2020
- HR: work-authorization and status outcomes for employees in proceedings delayed
- WF
- Character
- context
- Collection
- Federal labor and immigration agencies AGY-FED-LABOR-IMMIGRATION
Operative words
Case status and hearing date information may not be updated for those cases postponed due to operational changes during the coronavirus pandemic.... INFORMATION REGARDING NON-DETAINED HEARINGS. All hearings in non-detained cases are postponed through, and including, Friday June 12, 2020.... The Departments of Justice and Homeland Security continue to take necessary measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 by limiting in-person interaction. To this end, the Departments have made the following adjustments to the temporary postponement of hearings... Updated May 27, 2020.
Enforcement
Court orders resetting hearings; filing deadline adjustments
Notes
The May 27, 2020 capture; the postponement notices were extended in two-to-three-week increments from March 18, 2020 and the court-by-court status table (with courts marked CLOSED) continued through 2021.
Retrieval noteLater captures (e.g., Sept. 2020, Jan. and July 2021) would extend the chronology; Mar. 18, 2020 is the start of the postponements it reports; not changed.