JIMENEZ

Citations

• 21 I. & N. Dec. 567

Syllabus

JIMENEZ, 21 I&N Dec. 567 (BIA 1996) ID 3291 (PDF) A waiver of inadmissibility under section 212(c) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C. § 1182(c) (1994), is not available to waive an alien's deportability under section 241(a)(3)(B)(iii) of the Act, 8 U.S.C. § 1251(a)(3)(B)(iii) (1994), as an alien convicted of a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1546 (1994), because there is no comparable statutory counterpart to sec-tion 241(a)(3)(B)(iii) among the various grounds for exclusion enumerated in section 212(a) of the Act. Matter of Esposito, 21 I&N Dec. 1 (BIA 1995) Matter of Hernandez-Casillas,20 I&N Dec. 262 (BIA 1990 A.G. 1991), aff'd, 983 F.2d 231 (5th Cir. 1993) Matter of Wadud,19 I&N Dec. 182 (BIA 1984), followed.