Legal Opinion
Pena-Beltre v. Holder
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided October 13, 2010No. 09-2072PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LYNCH, Chief Judge.
Manuel Peña-Beltre, a native and citizen of the Dominican Republic, petitions for review of a final order of removal issued by the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA). The BIA upheld an Immigration Judge’s (IJ) finding of removability and denial of Peña-Beltre’s requests for (1) removal of the conditions on his conditional lawful residence status and (2) voluntary departure. Both the BIA and the IJ found Peña-Beltre had engaged in marriage fraud in order to obtain an immigration benefit. We deny his petition.
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Peña-Beltre entered the United States without inspection on or…
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