Deportation – Statutory Waiver

By: Derek Hawkins//November 20, 2017//

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7^th Circuit Court of Appeals

Case Name: James O. Acquaah v. Jefferson B. Sessions III

Case No.: 16-3277

Officials: RIPPLE, ROVNER and HAMILTON, Circuit Judges

Focus: Deportation – Statutory Waiver

The procedural history of this case is complicated, but the issue before us in the present petition is a narrow one: whether, when issuing a final decision in 2015 on Mr. Acquaah’s first petition to remove the conditions on his residency, the Board erred in determining that Mr. Acquaah was statutorily ineligible for a fraud waiver. We conclude that the Board erred in construing the statutory waiver and therefore remand this case to the Board for proceedings consistent with this opinion.

Granted in part and Denied in part

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