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EOIR Acting Director issues PM 25-29 to restrict use of administrative closure

  1. Original Date Announced

    April 18, 2025

    EOIR 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that subsequent rulemaking issued on 5/29/24, “Efficient Case and Docket Management in Immigration Proceedings,” superseded the DM and rendered it unnecessary.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 25-29

Current Status

None

Original Trump Policy Status

Status: Final/Actual
Trump Administration Action: Agency Directive
Subject Matter: Hearings and Adjudications
Agencies Affected: EOIR

Pre Trump-Era Policies

Documents

Trump-Era Policy Documents

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