Pankajkumar S. Patel v. U.S. Attorney General

TJOFLAT, Circuit Judge:

*1322This case presents interesting, and rather complicated, questions of statutory interpretation.

Pankajkumar Patel, an immigrant facing removal, asks us to review a decision by the Board of Immigration Appeals. The Board held that Patel is inadmissible, and thus cannot get relief from removal, because he falsely represented himself as a citizen when applying for a Georgia driver's license. The relevant statute provides that an alien is inadmissible if he falsely represents himself as a U.S. citizen "for any purpose or benefit" under the law. 8 U.S.C. §…