Legal Opinion
Jayesh K. Shah v. Eric Holder, Jr.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided December 4, 2013No. 12-3658, 13-1295PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.
Fifteen years after his 1990 conviction for aggravated criminal sexual abuse, Jayesh Shah was ordered removed to India. He did not seek judicial review of that order but did file a motion to reconsider and petition for review of its denial. He contended that he should have been granted a waiver of removal under § 212(c) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C. § 1182(c) (1994 ed.), as it stood before its repeal in 1996. That argument got him nowhere, because he ignored the principal ground on which the immigration judge and the Board of Immigration Appeals…
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