United States Fourth Circuit

Petition for review of denial of application to defer removal under the UN Convention Against Torture and finding petitioner ineligible for relief under the INA is dismissed as to request for relief under the CAT, and denied as to requests for adjustment of status and a waiver of inadmissibility under the INA, where the BIA's interpretation of the INA is based on a permissible construction of the statute.

Appellate Information

• Argued 11/01/2007
• Decided 02/14/2008
• Published 02/14/2008

Judges

• Before GREGORY and DUNCAN, Circuit Judges, and James A. BEATY, Jr., Chief United States District Judge for the Middle District of North Carolina, sitting by designation.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  John R. Ingrassia, Proskauer & Rose, L.L.P., Washington, D.C.;  Elizabeth Hutton McGrail, Capital Area Immigrants' Rights Coalition, Washington, D.C., for Petitioner.  Janice Kay Redfern, Office of Immigration Litigation, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Respondent.   ON BRIEF:  Peter D. Keisler, Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, Linda S. Wernery, Assistant Director, Office of Immigration Litigation, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Respondent.