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Objection to A Defect in the NTAThe Board has held in Matter of Fernandes, 28 I&N Dec. 605, 610–11 (BIA 2022), that an objection to a noncompliant notice to appear will generally be considered timely if raised prior to the close of pleadings. That decision wa...

The commencing of removal proceedings is the Department of Homeland Security's issuance of a Notice to Appear, which lays out the factual allegations and the charges being made against the respondent. It must be signed by a DHS official and contain a time and...

Matter of LOPEZ-TICAS, 29 I&N Dec. 90 (BIA 2025)The lack of time and place information on the notice to appear does not render untrue or incorrect a respondent’s admission to the factual allegations or invalidate the charges of removability in the notice to ap...