Almonte v. Reno

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that to limit the holding in Goncalves to applications filed before April 24, 1996, “exalts form over substance”
• acknowledging that the holdings in Goncalves and Almonte are subject to the “criticism that the likelihood of an alien’s [having applied for relief or] having made his intention to seek relief known is largely dependent on the vagaries of the commencement of a deportation proceeding”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).