Executive Office for Immigration Review; Board of Immigration Appeals; Expansion of the Board

摘要

This final rule expands the Board of Immigration Appeals to nine permanent members, including eight Board Members and a Chairman. It provides for the designation of three-member panels to adjudicate cases and stay requests. It also provides for a quorum of a majority of the permanent Board for en banc adjudication, and a quorum of a majority of the panel members for panel adjudications. The permanent Board may, by majority vote or at the direction of the Chairman, consider or reconsider en banc any case that was previously decided by a panel. The rule also retains the authority of the Director of the Executive Office for Immigration Review to designate Immigration Judges as temporary additional Board Members.