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Original Date Announced
April 18, 2025EOIR Acting Director Owen issued Policy Memorandum (PM) 25-29, rescinding and cancelling Director’s Memorandum (DM) 22-03, “Administrative Closure.” DM 22-03, issued during the Biden administration, provided guidance on the use of administrative closure by EOIR adjudicators and encouraged their application where appropriate. (Administrative closure is a judicial tool that pauses removal proceedings, temporarily removing a case from an immigration judge's active calendar or from the Board of Immigration Appeals active docket, allowing the immigration judge or Board to resume proceedings once the case is ripe for adjudication.)
PM 25-29 asserts that subsequent rulemaking issued on 5/29/24, “Efficient Case and Docket Management in Immigration Proceedings,” superseded the DM and rendered it unnecessary. Characterizing administrative closure as "an amnesty program," the memo further argues that many of the assertions in the DM were “either factually or legally dubious” and that EOIR’s use of administrative closure “was an unmitigated disaster from a policy standpoint.”
Trump 2.0 [ID #1688]
2025.04.18 EOIR: PM 25-29Current Status
NoneOriginal Trump Policy Status
Status: Final/ActualTrump Administration Action: Agency DirectiveSubject Matter: Hearings and AdjudicationsAgencies Affected: EOIRAssociated or Derivative Policies
Pre Trump-Era Policies
- November 22, 2021 2021.11.22 EOIR: DM 22-03
Documents
Trump-Era Policy Documents
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New Policy
Original Source:
EOIR: PM 25-29
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Prior Policy
Original Source:
EOIR: DM 22-03
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