CASE: Bond Redetermination Hearing
APPLICANT: Chinese
LOCATION: Florence Immigration Court, AZ
Our office was contacted in late August regarding a Chinese individual detained in Florence, Arizona. This Chinese client tried to enter the United States without valid documents and was incarcerated by immigration officers.
Prior to retention, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement already set a very high bond amount. Our client wished to have that reduced so we filed a motion for bond redetermination with the Florence, Arizona Immigration Court. Our office communicated with him and his U.S. resident relative in New York, and gathered as much information regarding his relief, equities, criminal record, family ties, and financial ability to post bond. We also gathered supporting documents from those relatives, from proof of their status and residence, to bank statements and tax returns.
On September 15, 2011, we represented our client for his first Master Calendar hearing. Our client did pleadings, requested asylum relief, and requested a bond re-determination hearing. The Immigration Judge set a bond re-determination hearing on September 27, 2011.
On September 27, 2011, we represented our client for his Florence Arizona Immigration Court bond re-determination hearing. During the hearing, we contended that our client was eligible for asylum relief, passed his credible fear interview, was not a flight risk, had established his residence upon release, had established his financial ability to post bond, and that he had ample family ties in the United States who submitted proof of their residence and immigration status. Our office emphasized that his lack of criminal record, designated address with contact information from his relative in the United States, ability to post bond, and eligibility for asylum relief clearly demonstrate that the bond should be reduced. The Judge took our arguments into account and reduced the bond amount by a substantial amount.
Our client has been released and is in the process of preparing his asylum application.
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