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    Practice Advisory: Stays of Removal

    Last Updated

    June 29, 2021

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    Removal Proceedings
    Humanitarian Relief

    This practice advisory explains how to seek a stay of removal with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), immigration court, the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA), and the U.S. courts of appeals.

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    Practice Advisory-Stays of Removal.pdf
    Sample memorandum in support of DHS I-246 submitted during Obama Administration.pdf
    Sample stay motion to the BIA for asylum-seeker-Redacted.pdf
    Sample stay motion to the BIA for Respondent with Derivative Natz Claim-Redacted.pdf
    Sample unopposed motion for a stay filed with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.pdf
    Sample stay motion filed with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.pdf
    Sample initial stay motion filed with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Redacted.pdf
    Sample supplemental stay motion filed with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit-Redacted.pdf
    Sample motion to stay the mandate filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.pdf
    Sample emergency stay motion filed with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit-Redacted.pdf
    Sample letter informing ICE that a stay motion is pending.pdf
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