Legal Opinion

Garcia v. Holder

Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

Decided November 2, 2011No. 08-73004PublishedCited by 41 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

GOULD, Circuit Judge:

Jorge Raul Garcia (“Garcia”) petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’s (“BIA”) dismissal of his appeal of an Immigration Judge’s (“IJ”) decision denying his application for cancellation of removal. The BIA concluded that Garcia’s 1992 parole as a Special Immigrant Juvenile, under 8 U.S.C. § 1255(h), did not qualify as an admission “in any status” as required by 8 U.S.C. § 1229b(a)(2) and, as a result, found Garcia statutorily ineligible for cancellation of removal because he did not establish seven years of continuous physical presence after having…

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3Cited by41 opinions

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