The Department of Justice, according to a newly unsealed document, is giving people who get a notice that they are being removed from the country under the Alien Enemies Act “no less than 12 hours” to contest the order.

In a sworn declaration by Carlos Cisneros, an assistant field officer for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the official said immigrants are given “a reasonable amount of time, and no less than 12 hours, including the ability to make a telephone call, to indicate or express an intent to file a habeas petition,” reports ABC News on Friday.

“If the alien does not express any such intention, then ICE may proceed with the removal,” the declaration adds. “If the alien does express an intent to file a habeas petition, the alien is given a reasonable amount of time, and no less than 24 hours, to actually file that petition.”

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