United States Second Circuit

For purposes of 8 U.S.C. section 1101(a)(48)(B), plaintiff was imprisoned for five years despite his having absconded for one day from work release, thus section 511(a) of the Immigration Act of 1990, precluded him from being able to seek a waiver of deportation.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/21/2003
• Published 03/28/2003

Judges

• PER CURIAM., Before:  MESKILL, CARDAMONE and CABRANES, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Stephen M. Brent,Brent & Roberts, Rochester, NY, for Petitioner-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Ethan B. Kanter, Senior Litigation Counsel (Michael P. Lindemann, Assistant Director, of counsel, Robert D. McCallum, Assistant Attorney General, on the brief), Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, Department of Justice, Washington, DC., for Respondent-Appellee.