Responsibilities
Removal proceedings are separate from ordinary USCIS benefit processing. An immigration judge can hear defensive asylum and other forms of relief when the law gives the court jurisdiction. Filing with the wrong agency can create serious problems; use the case notices and applicable filing instructions.
What to distinguish
Published precedent decisions must be read with their facts, holding and subsequent history. Matter of M-A-M- concerns competency safeguards in removal proceedings. A summary of a decision is not a prediction about a person’s case, and a past decision may have been limited or overruled.