Legal Opinion
Kinisu v. Holder
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided August 1, 2013No. 12-2444PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LYNCH, Chief Judge.
Emmanuel Kinisu, a native and citizen of Kenya, petitions for review of an order of the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) affirming the ruling of an Immigration Judge (IJ). The IJ ruled that Kinisu had not met the standard for waiver of the usual requirement of filing a joint petition with a spouse in order to remove the conditions from his conditional permanent residency. Before the IJ, Kinisu, who did not file jointly with his ex-wife, had argued that he was entitled to removal of the conditions based on his marriage to an American citizen, despite the fact that the…
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