Legal Opinion
Vartelas v. Holder
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided March 28, 2012No. 10-1211PublishedCited by 201 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Ginsburg
Panagis Vartelas, a native of Greece, became a lawful permanent resident of the United States in 1989. He pleaded guilty to a felony (conspiring to make a counterfeit security) in 1994, and served a prison sentence of four months for that offense. Vartelas traveled to Greece in 2003 to visit his parents. On his return to the United States a week later, he was treated as an inadmissible alien and placed in removal proceedings. Under the law governing at the time of Var-telas’ plea, an alien in his situation could travel abroad for brief periods without jeopardizing his resident alien status.…
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