United States Ninth Circuit

Petition for review of a Board of Immigration Appeals' (BIA) order finding petitioner removable and ineligible for cancellation of removal is granted in part where petitioner's acceptance into the Family Unity Program (FUP) rendered him "admitted in any status" for the purposes of eligibility for cancellation of removal.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/09/2006
• Decided 07/24/2006
• Published 07/24/2006

Judges

• PAEZ, Circuit Judge:, Before: MICHAEL DALY HAWKINS, GRABER, and PAEZ, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Gary Finn, Indio, CA, for the petitioner-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Peter D. Keisler, Linda S. Wendtland, and Shelley R. Goad, United States Department of Justice, Civil Division, Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, D.C., for the respondent-appellee.