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· 4/10/2026

Bolivar-Bolivar

Citations

  • 29 I. & N. Dec. 548

Syllabus

Where the respondent is charged with being in the United States without having been admitted or paroled, neither the alien nor the Department of Homeland Security appears at the hearing, and the record contains evidence of alienage, the Immigration Judge errs in terminating removal proceedings rather than proceeding with an in absentia hearing.

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