Legal Opinion
Gerardo Hernandez Lara v. Loretta E. Lynch
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided June 18, 2015No. 14-3305PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge.
Gerardo Hernandez Lara, a citizen of Mexico, married a U.S. citizen in 1988. Hernandez (the name he uses) gained conditional permanent residency based on that marriage but never completed the process necessary to obtain unconditional permanent residency. When placed in removal proceedings in 2008 — ten years after divorcing his wife — he sought permanent residency through a discretionary waiver available to petitioners who can show that they had entered a failed marriage in good faith. Hernandez testified at the removal hearing that he had entered his marriage in good…
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