Ramiro Tula Rubio v. Loretta Lynch

HAYNES, Circuit Judge:

Ramiro Constantino Tula-Rubio, a native and citizen of Mexico, petitions for review of a decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals, which held he was ineligible for cancellation of removal because he was not “admitted in any status” at least seven years prior to his commission of a state offense as required by 8 U.S.C. § 1229b(a)(2). We GRANT Tula-Rubio’s petition.

I. Background

In 1992, at the age of four, Tula-Rubio entered the United States while riding in a car driven by a U.S. citizen, which was physically waved through the port of entry by an immigration officer.…