Immigration removal proceedings in the Executive Office of Immigration Review, Immigration Court, can end in many different ways. Typically, if a case proceeds to its conclusion, then the Immigration Judge will either grant relief of some kind (i.e. asylum, cancellation of removal, voluntary departure) or the Immigration Judge will order the respondent removed. There are many times that cases don’t progress that far for various reasons. Perhaps the respondent is eligible to obtain an immigration benefit from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service, or facts and circumstances have changed since the initiation of the proceedings and the charges can no longer be sustained.

There are also times where the Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement will offer to exercise its prosecutorial discretion to decline to pursue the case. This will happen most often in cases where the respondent is extremely sympath