Legal Opinion
MacArio Moreno-Morante v. Alberto R. Gonzales, Attorney General
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided June 21, 2007No. 05-75376PublishedCited by 34 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MICHAEL DALY HAWKINS, Circuit Judge.
We address a question of first impression: does a United States citizen grandchild, in the lawful custody of non-citizen grandparents, meet the statutory definition of “qualifying relative” for the purpose of cancellation of removal? Grandparent Macario Moreno-Morante (“Moreno”) seeks review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’s (“BIA”) adoption and affirmance of an Immigration Judge’s (“IJ”) denial of his application for cancellation of removal, concluding that Moreno lacked qualifying relatives for purposes of the hardship determination and rejecting the…
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