The phrase "administrative closure" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to the termination or suspension of administrative processes or cases, often in legal or bureaucratic settings.
Example: "The case was marked as an administrative closure due to lack of evidence."
Alternatives: "case dismissal" or "administrative termination".
The "administrative closure order" came with no details or substantive justification.
Administrative closure of a deportation case does not take a single job away from a U.S. worker.
The Justice Department enforced the decision in July by stripping an immigration judge in Philadelphia of his authority in scores of cases for continuing to use administrative closure.
On May 31, Judge Steven Morley used a procedure known as "administrative closure" to temporarily pause the removal proceedings for Reynaldo Castro-Tum, who entered the U.S. in 2014 as an unaccompanied minor.
Translated into plain English, administrative closure merely means an immigrant's deportation case is placed on the back burner while higher priority cases are prosecuted and aliens who pose a security risk to America are deported.
Gen. Jeff Sessions, since fired by Trump, personally issued a decision that placed limits on the ability of immigration judges to use a practice known as administrative closure, which allows judges to put cases on indefinite hold, and which, in immigration cases, can be a tool for delaying deportation orders.
CDRs and FMRs shown in the figure only include centrally-initiated reviews (this excludes CDRs initiated for reasons other than the maturing of a medical review diary or administrative closures which were initiated as periodic CDRs but were not completed due to technical reasons) of DI beneficiaries and SSI recipients.
In the past, judges have frequently issued administrative closures (temporary holds) on unaccompanied minors' cases while trying to determine the legal status of the children's family members.
Department of Justice spokesman Devin O'Malley responded that Sessions ended administrative closures as a way to stop suspending cases indefinitely, thereby shielding undocumented immigrants from deportation.
"Starting in 2012, immigration judges began increasingly to rely on administrative closures, which suspended cases indefinitely rather than actually rendering a final decision," he said in an emailed statement.
Administrative closures, which put a temporary pause on a removal hearing, have been used by immigration judges and the Board of Immigration Appeals as a tool to manage the some 650,000 backlogged cases in the immigration courts.
