Even though the Honduran petitioner failed to seek asylum within one year of arriving in the U.S., since his arrest by immigration authorities led to more violence against his family and threats against his associates in more Honduran cities, petitioner ...

Tagged with: Immigration Judge John A. Gibney Jr. U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Zambrano v. Sessions (VLW No. 017-2-208, 9 pp.) (Gibney, D.J.) 16-2131; Dec. 5, 2017; on petition for review from the Board of Immigration Appeals. 4th Cir. Holding: Even though the Honduran petitioner failed to seek asylum within one year of ...

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

Nardea v. Sessions (VLW No. 017-2-204, 12 pp.) (Diaz, J.) 16-1274; Nov. 29, 2017; On petition for review from the Department of Homeland Security. 4th Cir. Holding: A visa stamp, a part of a visa waiver form, and the presumption ...

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

A Peruvian woman who suffered years of domestic abuse from her husband, a Peruvian police officer, may not apply for asylum after having been removed, and had that removal order reinstated upon her return to the U.S.; the 4th Circuit ...

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

A divided 4th Circuit panel rejects a petition for review of a Board of Immigration Appeals order finding petitioner, a physician and citizen of India, both removable and inadmissible based on a North Carolina deferred prosecution agreement for computer solicitation ...

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

The 4th Circuit vacates the immigration fraud conviction of an Algerian native who entered the U.S. through the Diversity Immigrant Visa Program, because the district judge’s “persistent and repeated” improper comments on the Program and its participants, all to the ...

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

A Honduran mother who illegally entered the U.S. with her son after his maternal grandmother had the mother’s sister killed and threatened to kill the mother if she did not turn over custody of her son to his deceased father’s ...

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

A circuit court did not err in holding that it did not have jurisdiction to make predicate factual findings required for appellant mother’s child to acquire Special Immigrant status for federal immigration purposes, the en banc Court of Appeals holds ...

Tagged with: Immigration Judge Robert J. Humphreys Virginia Court of Appeals

Petitioner’s 2005 criminal proceedings under a first-offender statute for cocaine possession, Va. Code § 18.2-251, constituted a “conviction” as defined in 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(48)(A), making petitioner, a Mexican citizen, ineligible for cancellation of removal; the 4th Circuit denies his ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Immigration Judge Roger L. Gregory

A youth who was promptly taken into custody at the U.S. border, when he left his home in the Honduras at age 14 to escape from gang violence and pressure and tried to join his mother in Kentucky, did not ...

Tagged with: Immigration Judge Elizabeth K. Dillon U.S. District Court - Western District