United States Fifth Circuit

Petition for review of a denial of petitioner's application for adjustment of status is denied over his claim that 8 C.F.R. section 245.1(c)(8), which deems arriving aliens who are in removal proceedings ineligible to apply for adjustment of status to lawful permanent resident, is invalid.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/25/2006
• Published 04/26/2006

Judges

• EDITH BROWN CLEMENT, Circuit Judge:, Before REAVLEY, CLEMENT and PRADO, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Riddhi Pankaj Desai, Houston, TX, for Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• James Donald Maxwell, II, Oxford, MS, Thomas Ward Hussey, Dir., U.S. Dept. of Justice, OIL, Washington, DC, Caryl G. Thompson, U.S. INS, Attn: Joe A. Aguilar, New Orleans, LA, Sharon A. Hudson, U.S. Citizenship & Imm. Services, Houston, TX, for Respondent.