Cyrus D. Mehta and Kaitlyn Box, May 14, 2024 "In “What if the Job Has Changed Since the Labor Certification Was Approved Many Years Ag o” we discussed strategies for noncitizen workers...
Blanford v. USCIS "Because of a consular officer’s suspicions over a $900 payment, two children have spent the last seven years in a Liberian orphanage instead of with their adoptive parents...
EOIR, May 10, 2024 "The Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) today announced the appointment of 20 immigration judges—18 immigration judges who joined courts in California, Georgia...
DEFENDANTS’ MOTION TO TERMINATE THE FLORES SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AS TO THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES News coverage here and here .
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Matter of Voss, 28 I&N Dec. 107 (BIA 2020)
If a criminal conviction was charged as a ground of removability or was known to the Immigration Judge at the time cancellation of removal was granted under section 240A(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C. § 1229b(a) (2018), that conviction cannot serve as the sole factual predicate for a charge of removability in subsequent removal proceedings.
"[W]e disagree with the Immigration Judge’s finding that the respondent is now removable under section 237(a)(2)(B)(i) of the Act solely because of her 2013 conviction for offenses relating to controlled substances. Her inadmissibility under section 212(a)(2)(A)(i)(II) based on that conviction resulted in the grant of cancellation of removal she received in 2014, which, without more, now precludes a finding of deportability based on the same conviction. Accordingly, the respondent’s appeal will be sustained, the Immigration Judge’s decision will be vacated, and the proceedings will be terminated."
[Hats off to Philip J. Hunter!]