Legal Opinion
Vitaliy Semenovich Kaganovich v. Alberto R. Gonzales, Attorney General
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided December 12, 2006No. 04-70625PublishedCited by 63 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GRABER, Circuit Judge:
Petitioner Vitaliy Semenovich Kagano-vich seeks review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) order of removal and denial of his claims for relief. In this opinion, 1 we address the question whether an alien who arrives in the United States as a refugee pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1157 may be removed, even if his refugee status has never been terminated pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1157(c)(4). We conclude that the answer is “yes.”
FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND
In the early 1990s, Petitioner applied for refugee status while living in Ukraine, his home country. His…
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