By: Derek Hawkins//October 25, 2017//
7th Circuit Court of Appeals
Case Name: Jovo Asentic v. Jefferson B. Sessions III
Case No.: 17-1202
Officials: MANION, KANNE, and SYKES, Circuit Judges.
Focus: Immigration Appeal
Jovo Asentic, a Bosnian Serb who is now 65, was granted refugee status and brought his family to the United States from the former Yugoslavia more than fifteen years ago. He has been a permanent resident for nearly that long, but the Board of Immigration Appeals has authorized the government to remove Asentic from this country because, in applying for refugee status, he failed to disclose his participation as a combatant in the Bosnian conflict during the 1990s. The Board could have granted Asentic a discretionary waiver of removal under 8 U.S.C. § 1227(a)(1)(H) but declined to do so. Asentic petitions for review. Although he presents a sympathetic case, we agree with the Board that he is removable based on fraud, and we lack jurisdiction to review the Board’s discretionary decision to deny the waiver.
Dismissed in part. Denied in part.