Practice Advisory: BIA revises policy to allow many more LPRs with pre-1996 convictions to apply for 212(c) waivers of deportation
On February 28, 2014, the Board of Immigration Appeals issued Matter of Abdelghany, 26 I&N Dec. 254 (BIA 2014), in which the Board ruled that a lawful permanent resident immigrant who has accrued 7 consecutive years of lawful domicile in the U.S. may seek a waiver of removal for most deportable criminal offenses if the plea or conviction was entered … Read more »