United States Ninth Circuit

In a petition for review of the BIA's denial of petitioner's application for waiver of removal, the petition is granted where an individual whose mother is a U.S. citizen continues to be "the son . . . of a citizen of the United States," as set forth at 8 U.S.C. section 1227(a)(1)(H)(i), after his mother's death.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/08/2010
• Decided 05/19/2010
• Published 05/19/2010

Judges

• Before: DANIEL M. FRIEDMAN,DOROTHY W. NELSON, and STEPHEN REINHARDT, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Andrew J. Vasquez, Pasadena, CA, for the petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Christina Bechak Parascandola, United States Department of Justice, Civil Division, Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, D.C., for the respondent.