United States Fourth Circuit

Order of removal from the U.S. under 8 U.S.C. section 1227(a)(2)(A)(i) is vacated where the BIA erroneously determined that the date on which petitioner adjusted his status to become a permanent resident qualifies as "the date of admission."

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/22/2006
• Decided 06/19/2006
• Published 06/19/2006

Judges

• Before WILKINS, Chief Judge, and MOTZ and KING, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Theresa Isidore Obot, Baltimore, Maryland, for Petitioner.  Song E. Park, United States Department of Justice, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, Washington, D.C., for Respondent.   ON BRIEF:  Theo I. Ogune, Law Office of Theresa I. Obot, Baltimore, Maryland, for Petitioner.  Peter D. Keisler, Assistant Attorney General, M. JocelynLopez Wright, Assistant Director, United States Department of Justice, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, Washington, D.C., for Respondent.