6 U.S.C. § 521
Section 521 · Legal status of EOIR
Amended 1 time on record
Applied in 14 court decisions — leading case 23 I. & N. Dec. 912 - J-F-F (2006)
Most recently applied in Fortunato Amador Duenas v. Merrick Garland (July 2023)
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year.Markers show enactment, consequential amendments, and circuit splits over this section — watch for a citation surge after a change or a disagreement. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
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