CASE: Master Calendar / Bond Redetermination Hearing
APPLICANT: Chinese
LOCATION: Eloy Immigration Court, AZ
Our office was contacted in early September regarding a Chinese individual detained in Eloy, Arizona. This person 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 Eloy Immigration Court in Arizona. Our office communicated with her and her U.S. resident relative in Connecticut, and gathered as much information regarding her 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 October 3, 2011, we represented our client for her Eloy Arizona Immigration Court master calendar hearing and bond re-determination hearing simultaneously. During the Master Calendar hearing, we did pleadings for our client, and requested asylum relief. During the bond re-determination hearing, we explained to the Court that our client already passed her credible fear interview, was not a flight risk, had established her residence upon release, had established her financial ability to post bond, and that she had ample family ties in the United States who submitted proof of their residence and immigration status. Moreover, our office explained that her 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. We also emphasized that our client is a young female individual, and explained briefly the nature of her asylum claim. At the end of the hearing, the Immigration Judge took our arguments into account and reduced the bond to only one-third of the amount the DHS originally set it for.
Our client has been released and is in the process of preparing her asylum application.
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