United States Ninth Circuit

In a petition for review of the BIA's denial of petitioner's application for an extreme hardship waiver of removal, the petition is granted where an alien whose legal status as the spouse of a citizen is later terminated because the marriage was fraudulent is eligible for discretionary relief from removal.

Appellate Information

• Argued 10/06/2009
• Decided 04/19/2010
• Published 04/19/2010

Judges

• Before MARY M. SCHROEDER and MARSHA S. BERZON, Circuit Judges, and Honorable LYLE E. STROM,District Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Jeremiah Johnson, San Francisco, CA, for the petitioner., Peter D. Keisler, Richard M. Evans, and Allen W. Hausman, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for the Attorney General.