Even though the Department of Homeland Services cancelled a removal order to deport petitioner to Panama, the 4th Circuit has jurisdiction to review his petition, and holds that because petitioner’s prior Virginia conviction for statutory burglary was not an aggravated ...

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

A Chinese citizen who overstayed his exchange visitor visa and later worked through a broker in an attempt to illegally obtain a fraudulent green card from an undercover government agent cannot overturn his immigration fraud conviction with a claim that ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Immigration Per Curiam Opinion

A Honduran citizen’s nuclear family ties to her husband, whom she suspected had been murdered by his employer, was a central reason for her alleged persecution and fear of future persecution, and the 4th Circuit grants her petition for review ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Immigration Judge Barbara Milano Keenan

An American man who was denied a Form I-130 Petition for Alien Relative, for admission of his wife, a UK citizen, because of the man’s prior criminal convictions for sexual offenses against minors, cannot have that denial reviewed in federal ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Immigration Judge Stephanie Dawn Thacker

Although a Kenyan woman who had worked as a maid for defendants in Saudi Arabia and in the U.S. only received monthly base pay of $400 instead of the $1,600 recited in her contract, the 4th Circuit affirms summary judgment ...

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

(AP) The Trump administration’s revised travel ban is an “incredible concession” and a tacit admission that the original ban was constitutionally flawed, Virginia’s attorney general said Monday. President Donald Trump issued a new executive order Monday restricting travel from six ...

Tagged with: Immigration Mark Herring President Donald Trump Virginia Attorney General

WASHINGTON (AP) President Donald Trump’s revised travel ban will temporarily halt entry to the United States for people from six Muslim-majority nations who are seeking new visas, allowing those with current visas to travel freely, according to a fact sheet ...

Tagged with: Executive Order Immigration President Donald Trump

A citizen of Thailand facing removal after her divorce from a naturalized U.S. citizen wins remand of her case because the Board of Immigration Appeals applied the wrong standard of review in determining whether she had married in good faith; ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Immigration Judge Pamela A. Harris

A Pakistani citizen initially granted asylum, who voluntarily adjusted his status to lawful permanent resident, is not entitled to additional protections that would have been available to an asylee prior to his removal for misrepresenting facts in order to obtain ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Immigration Judge Paul V. Niemeyer

Virginia’s involuntary manslaughter offense is not a “crime of moral turpitude” and the Board of Immigration Appeals erred in its contrary holding and in rejecting a Belarus native’s petition for asylum, withholding of removal and protection under the Convention Against ...

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