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Immigration Consequences For Criminal Matters
What are the immigration consequences of criminality, generally.
Relief Available With An Aggravated Felony Conviction
What relief is available to a person in removal proceedings who has been convicted of an aggravated felony.
Basics
SPECIFIC NEW YORK OFFENSES
CIMT's
CIMT's and their consequences. When do two CIMT's arise from the same scheme?
8 USC 1227: Deportable aliens
§1227. Deportable aliens8 USC 1227: Deportable aliens: Text contains those laws in effect on March 16, 2025From Title 8-ALIENS AND NATIONALITYCHAPTER 12-IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITYSUBCHAPTER II-IMMIGRATIONPart IV-Inspection, Apprehension, Examination, Exclus...
Basics
I. How Immigration Law Evaluates California Sentences A. When does the length of an imposed sentence matter for immigration purposes? See also Chart 3 in Part VII, below, which summarizes how sentences cause immigration penalties. Aggravated felonies. The most...
Arise From a Single Scheme
Matter of Carlos Manuel BAEZA-GALINDO, 29 I&N Dec. 1 (BIA 2025)The Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) has narrowed the instances in which two crimes involving moral turpitude will be considered part of the same scheme. The BIA has said that crimes that immedi...
Theft
Theft & Intent to Permanently DepriveA theft offense must include a permanent intent to deprive a victim of property which cannot be assumed. The Board of Immigration Appeals has overruled its decision in Matter of Jurado, which assumed that retail theft in Pe...
LPR Returning to the US
Lau v. Bondi, No. 21-6623 (2d Cir March 3, 2025)An LPR that is returning to the US after traveling abroad cannot be treated as seeking admission and paroled into the US based on a pending charge of a CIMT. The Second Circuit issued this decision on March 3, 20...
Class A Misdemeanors in New York (retroactive reduction to 364 day max penalty)
Peguero Vasquez v. Garland, No. 21-6380 (2d Cir. 2023)The Second Circuit said it can't apply retroactively even though the law says it applies retroactively. I. BackgroundUnder 8 U.S.C. § 1227(a)(2)(A)(i) — which is Section 237(a)(2)(A)(i) of the Immigration ...