United States First Circuit

In removal proceedings against a Colombian national, a petition for review of the BIA's denial of an application for cancellation of removal is denied, where: 1) substantial evidence in the record supported the immigration judge's determination -- and the BIA's reasoned affirmance -- that the petitioner, while under oath, provided false testimony at his immigration hearings regarding the motives underlying his divorce, so that the petitioner was statutorily precluded from obtaining cancellation of removal relief because he lacked good moral character; and 2) the BIA's credibility determinations were within the In re A-S- framework.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/12/2012
• Published 04/12/2012

Judges

• Torruella

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Randy Olen, Nancy E. Friedman