United States Third Circuit

In an appeal from an Immigration Judge's denial of cancellation of removal, the court affirmed and noted that the requirement of ten years physical presence in the United States for cancellation of removal was broken by the alien's prior voluntary departure under threat of deportation.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/01/2005
• Published 11/01/2005

Judges

• VAN ANTWERPEN, Circuit Judge., Before SCIRICA, Chief Judge, VAN ANTWERPEN and ALDISERT, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Third Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Regis Fernandez, Newark, NJ, for Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Mary Jane Candaux, Douglas E. Ginsburg, James E. Grimes, John M. McAdams, Jr., U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Immigration Litigation, Ben Franklin Station, Washington, DC, for Respondent.