On Monday, June 10, 2024, the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) issued an order immediately suspending Jibran Muhammad from practicing law before immigration courts and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

The case is entitled “In the Matter of Jibran S. Muhammad.”

According to the BIA order and the Agreed Disposition Memorandum filed earlier in the Virginia State Bar Disciplinary Board, Muhammad received a six-month suspension from the practice of law in Virginia effective May 6, 2024. The suspension stemmed from misconduct complaints filed against him alleging failures to diligently represent clients, deposit client funds into his trust account, properly notify clients when he left private practice to become a prosecutor, and other duties required of attorneys.

Specifically, the Agreed Disposition Memorandum detailed how Muhammad failed to advance immigration cases for three clients who had paid him thousands of dollars to prepare asylum applications and represent them in court but did not file the necessary paperwork or notify them when he took a job that prevented him from acting as their lawyer. He also did not properly deposit or account for their funds. A fourth client alleged Muhammad failed to file documents in his case for over a year after retaining him.

In response to Muhammad’s state suspension, the Disciplinary Counsel for EOIR and DHS jointly filed a petition to immediately suspend him from practicing before immigration courts and DHS given the conduct at issue.

The BIA granted the petition for immediate suspension pending the outcome of the disciplinary proceedings. Muhammad must now notify any clients with pending immigration cases of his suspension.

The Disposition states:

“The petition is granted, and the respondent is hereby suspended from the practice of law before the Board of Immigration Appeals, the Immigration Courts, and DIIS, pending final disposition of this proceeding.”

According to avvo.com, Mr. Muhammad is an immigration attorney in Ashburn, Virginia. He attended the College of William and Mary, Marshall-Wythe School of Law, graduating in 2012.

A copy of the original filing can be found here.