The Executive Office for Immigration Review, which oversees immigration courts, said that about 22 percent of such court orders were issued in absentia.

Removal proceedings are typically conducted in Immigration Court (the Executive Office for Immigration Review) by an immigration judge.

The present process starts with a public hearing before an immigration judge of the Justice Department's Executive Office for Immigration Review.

He then went before a judge working under the aegis of the Executive Office for Immigration Review, a branch of the Justice Department.

If the request for asylum is not approved, the asylee is referred to an immigration judge at the Executive Office for Immigration Review.

The Executive Office for Immigration Review will make available a qualified representative to detainees deemed mentally incompetent to represent themselves in immigration proceedings.

The Federal agency that administers immigration courts, the Executive Office of Immigration Review, declined to comment on the Mohammad case.

These are conducted by the Executive Office for Immigration Review.

The report called for a new Agency for Immigration Review to assure legality and accountability, subject to review in the Federal courts.

Under Federal rules governing the Executive Office of Immigration Review, the office's 200 administrative law judges cannot compel witnesses to testify.