Mendonca v. Immigration & Naturalization Service

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

SARIS, District Judge.

INTRODUCTION

Pro se plaintiff Sharon Mendonca has filed a complaint requesting this Court to review an immigration judge’s (“IJ”) denial of her husband’s application for adjustment of status pursuant to section 245 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (“INA”), 8 U.S.C. § 1255, and to enjoin his deportation. Mendonca claims that the IJ and the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) failed to consider evidence of certain favorable equities in support of her husband’s application (i.e., his twelve-year residency in the United States, his familial ties to…