In re Romo

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    The Law Offices of Grinberg & Segal, PLLCAlexander J. SegalJune 13, 2016

    Matter of Ruzku, 26 I&N Dec. 731 (BIA 2016) [see article]Decided: March 29, 2016The Board held that the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) should accept sibling-to-sibling DNA test results reflecting a 99.5 percent degree of certainty or higher that a full sibling biological relationship exists, and that such evidence should be considered probative evidence of the sibling relationship.The Matter of Garza-Oliveras, 26 I&N Dec. 736 (BIA 2016) [see article]Decided: May 5, 2016The Board held that when determining if an offense falls under the immigration aggravated felony provision found in INA 101(a)(43)(T) [see section], the categorical approach should be used to determine whether the offense was for failure to appear before a court, but the circumstance-specific approach should be used to determine if the underlying offense was under a court order to answer or dispose of a charge of felony for which a sentence of 2 years’ imprisonment or more may be imposed.The Matter of Gonzalez-Romo, 26 I&N Dec. 743 (BIA 2016) [see article]Decided: May 19, 2016The Board held that within the jurisdiction of the Ninth Circuit [1], a permanent resident who has a felony conviction for solicitation to possess marijuana for sale is inadmissible under INA 212(a)(2)(A)(i)(I) as an alien who committed a crime of moral turpitude even though INA 212(a)(2)(A)(i)(I) refers only to attempt and conspiracy to commit a crime of moral turpitude.Please see our related article on the immigration aggravated felony for trafficking in controlled substances [see article].The Matter of H. Estrada, 26 I&N Dec. 749 (BIA 2016) [see article]The Matter of H. Estrada dealt with two distinct issues, so we broke the case into three articles (an introduction and one article covering each of the issues).