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BIA appeals, motions to reopen and reconsider, and the deadlines that cannot be missed.
An immigration judge can let you leave the country on your own instead of being ordered removed. It can help your future, but only if you follow every condition. Missing one makes it worse.
When the Board of Immigration Appeals denies an asylum appeal, the next step is a federal court of appeals. The deadline is short, the standard is hard, and filing does not stop removal on its own.
A 2026 rule tried to cut most appeal deadlines to 10 days. A federal court threw that part out before it started, and the government has given up its appeal. Here is what the deadline is, and why the printed regulation still gets it wrong.
On August 18, 2026 the Board of Immigration Appeals held that the one-motion limit counts across both the immigration court and the Board, and that equitable tolling cannot get around it.
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