Cisneros v. Lynch

WOOD, Chief Judge.

José Antonio Cisneros, who had been a lawful permanent resident of the United States since 1996, had the bad judgment to commit unarmed robbery in 2012. This is an aggravated felony under 8 U.S.C. § 1227(a)(2)(A)(iii), and so one result of his conviction was the loss of his legal permanent resident status. His conviction also made him inadmissible under 8 U.S.C. § 1182(a)(2)(A)(i)(I) — that is, unable to adjust his status back to that of a lawful permanent resident — because robbery is a crime of moral turpitude. In order to regain eligibility for relief from removal through…