Legal Opinion
Mattis v. Reno
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided May 8, 2000No. 99-1429PublishedCited by 44 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LYNCH, Circuit Judge.
Before April 1996, lawful permanent resident aliens who were deportable because they had committed certain criminal offenses had one last hope to remain in the United States. They could apply for a waiver of deportation, technically known as a § 212(c) waiver, and the Attorney General, by act of grace, could grant relief. 1 The act of grace was not rare: in the years immediately preceding the statute’s passage, over half the applications were granted. See Mojica v. Reno, 970 F.Supp. 130, 178 (E.D.N.Y.1997); cf. Wallace v. Reno, 24 F.Supp.2d 104, 110 (D.Mass.1998).
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3Cited by44 opinions
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- Enrico St. Cyr v. Immigration and Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2000
- Rankine v. RenoCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2003
- Gyno Domond v. United States Immigration and Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2001
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