United States Ninth Circuit

Petition for review of the denial of petitioner's application for cancellation of removal is granted where a parent's status as an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence may be imputed to an unemancipated minor residing with that parent for purposes of satisfying the five-year permanent residence requirement for cancellation of removal.

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/08/2008
• Decided 05/27/2009
• Published 05/27/2009

Judges

• Before:  JEROME FARRIS, SUSAN P. GRABER, and KIM McLANE WARDLAW, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Christopher J. Stender, Stender & Lappin, PC, San Diego, CA, for the petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Carol Federighi, Office of Immigration Litigation, U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division, Washington, D.C., for the respondent.