555 U.S. 511 (2009) Cited 215 times 1 Legal Analyses
Holding that Fedorenko's rule that voluntariness is irrelevant to culpability with respect to the DPA's persecutor bar need not be applied to the analogous INA persecutor bar
Holding that Convention Against Torture determinations are reviewed for substantial evidence and "because we only apply that standard to factual determinations, the [Board's Convention Against Torture] determination . . . is properly characterized as factual, not legal, in nature"
Determining that an asylee who adjusted status to that of a lawful permanent resident was ineligible to readjust status pursuant to INA § 209(b), and thus was ineligible for a § 209(c) waiver
Holding that an alien who adjusted status from refugee to lawful permanent resident no longer qualified as a refugee and was thus no longer eligible to apply for a waiver of inadmissibility in connection with an adjustment of status under § 209
Granting Attorney General discretion to “adjust to the status of an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence” refugee previously granted asylum and physically present in United States