United States Sixth Circuit

The 1996 amendments to section 212(i) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, relating to the Attorney General's discretionary power to waive removal of an immigrant being deported on the basis of fraud, do not have a retroactive effect.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/30/2005
• Published 12/30/2005

Judges

• Before:  CLAY and COOK, Circuit Judges;  OLIVER, District Judge.

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ON BRIEF:  Margaret W. Wong, Margaret Wong & Associates, Cleveland, Ohio, for Petitioners.  Emily Anne Radford, Keith I. Bernstein, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Respondent.