D-M-C-P

Citations

• 26 I. & N. Dec. 644

Syllabus

D-M-C-P-, 26 I&N Dec. 644 (BIA 2015) (1) Neither an Immigration Judge nor the Board of Immigration Appeals has jurisdiction to consider whether asylum-only proceedings were improvidently instituted pursuant to a referral under the Visa Waiver Program. (2) It is improper to deem an application for relief abandoned based on the applicant's failure to comply with the biometrics filing requirement where the record does not reflect that the applicant received notification advisories concerning that requirement, was given a deadline for submitting the biometrics, and was advised of the consequences of his or her failure to comply.