A plaintiff convicted of statutory burglary under Va. Code § 18.2-91 in 1995 cannot qualify for citizenship and the Alexandria U.S. District Court grants summary judg­ment to the U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services in plaintiff’s request for review of its ...

Tagged with: Immigration Judge Claude M. Hilton U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A mother who came to the U.S. in 2005 from Guatemala with her children and who now has legal status, wins remand of her petition for release of her “Unaccompanied Minor” son – a teenager who has engaged in gang ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Immigration Judge Robert B. King

A Jamaican citizen admitted as a lawful permanent resident in 1996 but removed to Jamaica in 2013 because of multiple state court marijuana convictions has not shown that his logistical and communications dif­ficulties in pursuing his immigration case while in ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Immigration Judge G. Steven Agee

Even though there was no Spanish transla­tion of removal charges for a defendant from Mexico charged with illegal reentry into the U.S., he still would have been removed to Mex­ico, the 4th Circuit says as it reverses a district court’s ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Immigration Judge William B. Traxler Jr.

Petitioner, a citizen of the Democratic Re­public of the Congo who entered the U.S. on a phony Canadian passport and who admit­ted he had submitted a false asylum claim but said he was otherwise law-abiding, is not entitled to a ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Immigration Judge William B. Traxler Jr.

The 4th Circuit grants a petition for re­view filed by a citizen of the Dominican Re­public whose removal was ordered based on his two convictions of crimes involving moral turpitude; based on the categorical approach, we hold that a conviction ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Immigration Judge Dennis W. Shedd

A Haitian who fled his country because of political violence and became a lawful permanent resident, but who faced removal because of his Virginia convictions for burglary, robbery and grand larceny, loses his petition asking the 4th Circuit to review ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Immigration Judge Diana Gribbon Motz

A Roanoke U.S. District Court upholds the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ denial of an application for naturalization filed by appellant, a legal resident of the U.S.; the court accepts the magistrate judge’s report that appellant’s convictions in California for ...

Tagged with: Immigration Judge Michael F. Urbanski U.S. District Court - Western District

An Alexandria U.S. District Court says a Chinese citizen cannot overturn a denial of his application for naturalization based on his 1995 robbery conviction, which qualified as an “aggravated felony” under the Immigration and Nationality Act and barred his ability ...

Tagged with: Immigration Judge Leonie Brinkema U.S. District Court - Eastern District

The 4th Circuit rejects the Board of Immigration Appeals’ new rule that refuses to recognize some nunc pro tunc adoption orders, and grants a petition for review filed by a Nigerian citizen who was 17 years old when his biological ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Immigration Judge Robert B. King