Yes. Even if a noncitizen applicant meets all the statutory eligibility criteria to obtain legal immigration status or to seek an immigration benefit and is not barred from doing so because of a determination of deportability or inadmissibility, s/he is not automatically entitled to the

A general allocution should be adopted and used in all cases, to all parties at the litigant’s initial appearance, regardless of the known or suspected immigration status of the litigant. For example: I am not asking you whether or not you are a United States citizen, but if you are not,