Some Successful Cases from 2022

• Cancellation of removal granted to a man from Mexico after his young son was diagnosed with PTSD and anxiety disorder stemming from his father’s arrest by ICE agents at their home. This man’s wife has epilepsy and he maintains the family with financial support and day-to-day help. Luckily, the immigration judge realized the terrible impact that a deportation would have on this man’s young son and gave this man a chance at getting a green card.

• Deportation case dismissed by the Immigration Judge after ICE agreed to stop pursuing deportation for my client, called a favorable exercise of prosecutorial discretion. Thanks to the dismissal of the deportation proceedings, my client can stay with his young daughter, maintain his properties in the U.S. and continue working for a major U.S. company. He had been in immigration court for 6 years because of an old conviction from 1996, which was the only arrest and conviction on his record.

• My client was deported and then reentered the US after a brutal attack on his life in his country of birth. The Immigration Judge decided that my client could not show that his life was still in danger and ordered him deported again. Luckily, the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit agreed that the Immigration Judge and the Board of Immigration Appeals had made serious errors and sent the case back down to be redecided according to the law (a remand).