Legal Opinion
Cabrera v. Lynch
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided November 9, 2015No. 14-1690PPublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
The petitioner, Julia Mercedes Cabrera, is a native and citizen of the Dominican Republic. She seeks judicial review of a final order of the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) upholding a decision of an immigration judge (IJ), which denied her both an 1-751 waiver and cancellation of removal. After careful consideration, we deny her petition.
I. BACKGROUND
We briefly rehearse the facts and travel of the case. The petitioner entered the United States in January of 1991 and married a U.S. citizen later that same year. Through that marriage, she was able to acquire status as a…
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