Legal Opinion

Chedad v. Gonzales

Court of Appeals for the First Circuit

Decided July 31, 2007No. 05-2782PublishedCited by 6 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

HOWARD, Circuit Judge.

Adil Chedad petitions for review of a decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) upholding the order of an Immigration Judge (“IJ”) pretermitting his application for adjustment of status and declaring him removable from the United States. The basis of the IJ’s decision, and its affirmance, was that Chedad was ineligible for any such adjustment because he had overstayed a period of voluntary departure imposed as part of a prior BIA order closing the removal proceedings against him.1 Before the voluntary departure period lapsed, however, Chedad had filed a motion…

2Cases cited16 opinions

  1. Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Aguirre-AguirreSupreme Court of the United States · 1999
  2. Bocova v. GonzalesCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 2005
  3. Da Silva v. AshcroftCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 2005
  4. Arie SHAAR; Helina Shaar; Shay Moshe Shaar, Petitioners, v. IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE, RespondentCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1998
  5. Salvador Azarte Celia Castellon v. John Ashcroft, Attorney GeneralCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2005

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3Cited by6 opinions

  1. Dada v. MukaseySupreme Court of the United States · 2008
  2. Punzalan v. HolderCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 2009
  3. Aronov v. ChertoffCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 2009
  4. Dada v. MukaseySupreme Court of the United States · 2008
  5. Aronov v. NapolitanoCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 2009

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