Legal Opinion
Valerio-Ramirez v. Lynch
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided December 11, 2015No. 14-2318PPublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LYNCH, Circuit Judge.
Inconsistent characterization of the governing law by the immigration authorities and insufficient analysis by the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) lead us, in an abundance of caution, to remand this petition to the BIA.
Lizbeth Patricia Velerio-Ramirez 1 (‘Valerio”), a native and citizen of Costa Rica, petitions for review of an order of the BIA denying her application for withholding of removal. Her petition contends that the BIA erred in upholding the immigration judge’s (“IJ”) determination that her conviction for aggravated identity theft was a “particularly…
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