• Hours & Info

    (562) 495-0554
    M-F: 8:00am - 6:00 p.m.
    Sat: 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
  • Past Blog Posts

  • https://api.whatsapp.com/send?phone=13104885414

CA9 Holds Petitioner was Legitimated Under Salvadoran Law

The court found that the Petitioner, born out-of-wedlock, failed to establish a claim of derivative citizenship through his mother, because the subsequent marriage of his parents established his paternity by legitimation.

https://atomic-temporary-10880024.wpcomstaging.com/tag/derivative-citizenship-under-former-ina-%c2%a7321a/

https://atomic-temporary-10880024.wpcomstaging.com/tag/derivative-citizenship/

https://atomic-temporary-10880024.wpcomstaging.com/tag/derivative-citizenship-case/

https://californiaimmigration.us/citizenship/

CA9 Finds No Abandonment of AOS Where Petitioner Departed without Advance Parole

Over dissent, the court found that where Petitioner unintentionally drove into Mexico without advance parole, he did not abandon his NACARA adjustment of status because 8 CFR §245.13(k)(1) applies only to “desired” departures.

CA9 Says CA Residential Burglary Is a Particularly Serious Crime

The court held that a conviction for residential burglary under Cal. Penal code §459 is a crime of violence under 18 USC §16(b) and is therefore a bar to withholding of removal as a particularly serious crime.

CA9 Refuses to Place Time Limitation on GMC for Registry

Though the registry statute, INA §249, does not specify a time period for good moral character, the court found that the IJ’s determination based on conduct stretching many years and leading up to the hearing was permissible.

The court found that the IJ’s determination based on conduct stretching many years and leading up to the hearing was permissible

Though the registry statute, INA §249, does not specify a time period for good moral character, the court found that the IJ’s determination based on conduct stretching many years and leading up to the hearing was permissible.

Immigration office

Immigration services

Immigration attorney

Immigration Law Firm

CA9 Says SIJ Parole Is an Admission “In Any Status” for Cancellation Purposes

The court found that Petitioner’s 1992 parole as a Special Immigrant Juvenile under INA §245(h) qualified as an admission “in any status” for purposes of cancellation of removal under INA §240A(a).

Ca9

Derivative citizenship under former INA

INA definition

Our Immigration Law Firm