A suggestion from local Immigration and Customs Enforcement Detention and Removal Office: call before coming in to make the bond payment. With the recent move to Burlington, “A files” may take longer to get from the Office of the Chief Counsel to ICE/DRO, so call in advance!

When Immigration & Customs Enforcement (”ICE”) or the Immigration Court set a bond for a detained alien, the person paying the bond, or “obligor,” must bring the amount of money set to an ICE Detention and Removal Office. In Boston, that would be located on the 17th floor of the John F. Kennedy Federal Building […]

I see that I haven’t written much about EOIR (the Executive Office for Immigration Review, or Immigration Court) proceedings, so today I want to write about bond hearings. I’ve been to the Boston Immigration Court more that usual this last week, and I have a matter pending before an Immigration Judge (IJ) in York, […]