What Is the CAVC?
The CAVC is the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims and is located in Washington, D.C. It is a Court of Judicial Review and is not part of the VA. Its only job is to determine whether or not the Board of Veterans’ Appeals (BVA) applied the law correctly when it denied your claim, which means no new evidence can be submitted in support of your appeal and all arguments must be founded in the law. When the BVA denies your claim and you appeal that decision, the CAVC is the court that decides the appeal. The CAVC will consider argument from both sides, your attorney and the VA’s attorney, and will then do one or more of the following: affirm the BVA’s decision, vacate the BVA’s decision and remand your claim back to the VA Regional Office, or reverse the BVA’s decision denying your claim.