Legal Opinion
Rivas v. U.S. Attorney General
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided September 3, 2014No. 13-13069PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PRYOR, Circuit Judge:
This petition for review requires us to decide whether a deportable alien who has left and reentered the United States may obtain nunc pro tunc a waiver of inadmissibility. See Immigration and Nationality Act § 212(h), 8 U.S.C. § 1182(h). The State of Florida twice convicted petitioner Giovanny Rivas of petit larceny, which rendered him removable. But before the Department of Homeland Security initiated removal proceedings, Rivas left the United States and then reentered on three separate occasions without notifying border officials of his ineligibility to reenter. After…
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