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Publication Date

5-7-2026

Document Type

Survey Article

Abstract

This Article reviews a sample of cases from the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit from January 1, 2025, through December 1, 2025, in which immigration law was the central focus. Across the opinions included in this Article, the Eleventh Circuit addressed matters of first impression, reinforced Congress’s restraints on judicial review of certain decisions made by immigration agencies, and navigated a post-Loper Bright Enterprises. v. Raimondo landscape, asserting independent interpretive authority due to the Supreme Court of the United States’s repeal of Chevron, U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. in 2024.

This Article begins by exploring an issue of first impression in the Eleventh Circuit: the statutory interpretation of the now-repealed single-parent subsection of the Immigration and Nationality Act (“INA”). Next, it focuses on the reviewability of decisions made by agencies such as the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (“USCIS”) and Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”), and when such decisions can be successfully reviewed. Third, this Article will address the court’s exercise of its judicial review without relying on the determination of the immigration agency’s interpretation of the INA and examine how the court often arrives at results consistent with long-standing agency frameworks.

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