The next process will be up to U.S. ICE as to whether to place you under proceedings or to do nothing further and exercise its prosecutorial discretion favorably. If placed under proceedings with a notice to appear (NTA) before the immigration court, you would have an opportunity to present any claims for relief to remain in the country. At that point also, you or your attorney could approach DHS attorneys who will be handling your case for a favorable exercise of prosecutorial discretion if you have good equities. If they decide that your case is worthy of prosecutorial discretion, DHS attorneys will usually agree to administratively close your case. Under an administrative close, your case is still within the jurisdiction of the immigration judge and either side can move to recalendar the case before the immigration court. Such could occur in the future if you later have a good claim to relief and wish to present it to the court for more permanent relief, or DHS could be the movant if you later commit a crime or the agency believes that your case no longer warrants prosecutorial discretion.
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