Van Der Hout, Brigagliano & Nightingale has a sterling reputation for challenging orders of removal and government misconduct before both the Board of Immigration appeals (the highest administrative appellate body) and the federal district and circuit courts. We have a notable track record of winning appeals before the Board of Immigration Appeals regardless of whether our client or the Immigration and Nationalization Service ("INS") is the appealing party.

Significantly, Van Der Hout, Brigagliano & Nightingale is one of a very small number of immigration law firms that have extensive experience in federal court litigation. We routinely handle appeals to the circuit or district courts from decisions of the Board of Immigration Appeals, including seeking emergency stays of removal. In addition, under the leadership of the firm's founding partner, Marc Van Der Hout, we have litigated several affirmative law suits against the government on an individual as well as a class action basis. Among the issues and actions we have litigated are: asylum, federal court jurisdiction, evidentiary issues, challenges to denying certain individuals relief under § 212(c), challenges to reinstatement of removal, circuit wide class action challenging improper interference with removal hearing process by immigration court officials, Bivens actions to redress INS misconduct, secret evidence, mandamus actions to compel INS action, selective prosecution claims, national class actions challenging the INS' improper adjudications regarding EB-2 and EB-5 petitions, and attorneys' fees litigation under the Equal Access to Justice Act.