Legal Opinion
Heaven v. Gonzales
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided December 14, 2006No. 05-61022PublishedCited by 33 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PRADO, Circuit Judge:
Before us is a petition for review of a decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”), which affirmed the determination of an immigration judge that the petitioner was not eligible to apply for cancellation of removal on the basis of the stop-time rule. Because the BIA correctly decided that the stop-time rule may be applied retroactively to the petitioner’s pre-1996 convictions and because we lack jurisdiction over the petitioner’s remaining claims, we DENY the petition in part and DISMISS it in part.
I. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND
Petitioner Dervin Venion…
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