Jose Ramirez Hernandez v. Loretta E. Lynch

Mexican citizen Jose Guadalupe Ramirez Hernandez (Ramirez) petitions for review of an order of the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) upholding an immigration judge’s (IJ’s) denial of his application for adjustment of status. 1 When, as here, the BIA adopts and affirms the IJ’s opinion, but adds reasoning of its own, this court reviews both decisions together. See Rodriguez v. Mukasey, 519 F.3d 773, 776 (8th Cir.2008). Ramirez bore the burden of. establishing clearly and beyond doubt that he was not inadmissible, and an alien is inadmissible if he falsely represents himself as a United States…