EOIR Issues Policy Memo on Continuances

Editor's note: This memo was rescinded on April 18, 2022.

EOIR issued a memo (PM 21-13) updating and replacing Operating Policies and Procedures Memorandum (OPPM) 17-01, Continuances, to account for legal and policy developments subsequent to its issuance. The memo provides a non-exhaustive list of legal and policy principles as an aid to adjudicators considering common types of continuance requests.

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Cite as AILA Doc. No. 21011101.

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