A native of Cameroon who claims political persecution as evidenced by multiple arrests and rape during detention loses her appeal of the decision by the Board of Immigration Appeals rejecting her application for asylum and withholding of removal, as the ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Immigration Judge Henry F. Floyd

An Alexandria U.S. District Court dismisses a petition seeking adjudication of a naturalization application filed by petitioner, a Pakistani citizen and lawful resident of the U.S. who is currently serving a 110-month sentence in federal prison for money laundering in ...

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

A citizen of Cameroon who was a university student newspaper editor and political activist in a Southern Cameroon independence movement, who was repeatedly arrested and beaten for her activism, has her case challenging denial of asylum remanded by the 4th ...

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

A Guatemalan mother and father who entered the U.S. illegally engaged in “alien smuggling” when they followed a pattern of sending each of their four children several thousand dollars at a hotel in Mexico, for the children’s subsequent illegal arrival ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Immigration Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III

A Mexican citizen and lawful permanent resident loses his challenge to an order that he be deported because of his convictions for domestic violence; the 4th Circuit lacks jurisdiction to hear his appeal from a denial of his request to ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Immigration Judge James A. Wynn Jr.

A lawful permanent resident, from former Jordanian territory, loses his challenge to the Board of Immigrations Appeals’ decision that he is removable and ineligible for cancellation of removal, due to his criminal record, which includes a Virginia conviction for petit ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Immigration Judge Albert Diaz

Although an immigration judge in 1998 terminated a deportation proceeding against petitioner, a native of Jamaica, with the comment that petitioner appeared to be a U.S. citizen by virtue of his father’s naturalization, the comment was not a declaration that ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Immigration Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III

A habeas petitioner gets an evidentiary hearing on his Strickland claim based on his assertion that he would not have pleaded guilty to misdemeanor drug possession had his lawyer not advised him the conviction would not affect his legal immigration ...

Tagged with: Fairfax County Circuit Court Immigration Judge Randy I. Bellows Virginia Circuit Courts

Your plaintiff is the family of a Mexican national from North Carolina, killed in an auto accident, and you’re stuck with a Virginia jurisdiction with a reputation for conservative jurors. If those circumstances sound daunting, consider a second case. Your ...

Tagged with: Henrico County Circuit Court Immigration Medical Malpractice Million-Dollar Verdicts Prince William Circuit Court Wrongful Death

A Norfolk U.S. District Court dismisses a petition for review of an application for naturalization filed by a native of Guyana, a permanent legal resident who served eight years in the U.S. Navy, but whose earlier petition was denied due ...

Tagged with: Immigration Judge Rebecca Beach Smith U.S. District Court - Eastern District