Legal Opinion
Elisned Corro-Barragan v. Eric H. Holder Jr.
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided June 10, 2013No. 08-74697PublishedCited by 79 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
McKEOWN, Circuit Judge:
This petition raises a matter of first impression in the Ninth Circuit regarding the interpretation of “physically present” in the voluntary departure provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act (“INA”), 8 U.S.C. § 1229e(b)(l)(A). We interpret physically present in this provision as requiring uninterrupted presence in the United States for at least one year and deny the petition for failure to meet this statutory requirement.
Background
Elisned Carine Corro-Barragan (“Cor-ro”) is a native and citizen of Mexico who lives with her three U.S. citizen children in…
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