Lebis Contracting, Inc. v. City of Lock-Port

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• holding that, in light of congressional intent expressed in Immigration Marriage Fraud Amendments of 1986, the BIA will “decline to grant motions to reopen for consideration of applications for adjustment of status based upon unadjudicated visa petitions”
• providing that “discretion should, as a general rule, be favorably exercised where a prima facie approvable visa petition and adjustment application have been submitted in the course of a deportation hearing or upon a motion to reopen.”
• establishing former BIA policy that motion to reopen must be denied when based on an unadjudicated visa petition

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