Legal Opinion
Yadvender Singh v. U.S. Department of Justice, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided August 29, 2006No. Docket 03-4900-agPublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CALABRESI, Circuit Judge:
This appeal concerns the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) denial of an alien’s motion to remand his case so that he could apply, under 8 U.S.C. § 1186a(e)(4)(A), for an extreme hardship waiver of the ordinary requirement that a conditional permanent resident file a joint petition with his spouse to remove the conditional designation of his residency status. See 8 U.S.C. § 1186a(c)(l). Because the reasoning of the BIA’s decision contradicts the plain language of its own regulations, and because petitioner’s motion to remand was premised on evidence that was…
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