The 4th Circuit grants review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ decision that an Afghan citizen who has lived in the U.S. most of his life is not eligible for cancellation of removal because of a crime he committed during ...

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

The 4th Circuit says the Board of Immigration Appeals did not abuse its discretion in refusing to reopen removal proceedings for a Chinese citizen married to a U.S. citizen, who argues he will be persecuted under China’s one-child policy if ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Immigration Judge Allyson K. Duncan

An Indonesian woman’s reports of four different instances when she or her family were attacked or harassed for being practicing Christians in a majority-Muslim country were not sufficient to qualify her for relief as a refugee seeking asylum or under ...

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

The 4th Circuit grants a Chinese native’s petition for review of Board of Immigration Appeals decisions affirming denial of his various applications for relief from deportation; the BIA erred by affirming a decision that committed legal error by conflating adverse ...

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

An applicant for adjustment of status after his mother married a U.S. citizen was not eligible for adjustment of status as the minor child of his mother because he turned 21 before he entered the U.S.; the 4th Circuit defers ...

Tagged with: Immigration Judge G. Steven Agee Virginia Court of Appeals

Failure to register as a sex offender is not a crime of moral turpitude, the 4th Circuit says, and it reverses a Board of Immigration Appeals’ decision that petitioner, a citizen of Sudan, was removable; a conviction under the Virginia ...

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

Although a woman’s one-year sentence for a 1995 aggravated felony conviction was commuted with a one-day reduction nunc pro tunc to 1995 by the governor of Virginia, that action did not allow the woman to qualify for naturalization without additional ...

Tagged with: Immigration Judge T.S. Ellis III U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Following a 7th Circuit decision, an Alexandria U.S. District Court adopts a magistrate judge’s report and says correspondence can constitute an informal appearance in court, but defendant’s letter in this government action to revoke naturalization does not show an intention ...

Tagged with: Immigration Judge Ivan D. Davis Judge James C. Cacheris U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A Guatemalan native who first came to the U.S. in 1988 and who illegally re-entered the U.S. and was observed at “milepost nine” in Arizona 17 miles north of the Mexican border, wins review of a denial of his application ...

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

A Salvadoran native assaulted and threatened by members of two gangs based on his relatives’ alignment with one of the gangs gets another chance to seek asylum, as the 4th Circuit says the Board of Immigration Appeals incorrectly analyzed his ...

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