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Supreme Court, Attorney General and Board decisions that change how asylum cases are decided.
Membership in a particular social group is the most argued of the five protected grounds. A run of 2025 and 2026 decisions has made these claims harder, and the way a group is defined now matters more than ever.
The Court has agreed to decide whether former asylees can still get green cards, whether the government's third-country removal policy is lawful, and who must be detained during removal cases.
In September 2025 the Attorney General reinstated two restrictive lines of precedent, and in June 2026 the Board added a countrywide test for social groups. These claims are harder now. They are not impossible, and the evidence decides them.
On June 25, 2026 the Supreme Court held that people turned back before reaching U.S. soil had not "arrived in" the United States. Here is where that fits among the other border rules, and why it does not change the law for people already here.
On March 4, 2026 a unanimous Supreme Court decided how appeals courts review the persecution question. The answer makes the immigration court record close to final.
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