Maria G. Ramos Jessica Ramos v. Immigration and Naturalization Service

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• holding that false statements made in an asylum examination are “false testimony”
• stating that the petitioner’s admission to lying did not preclude a finding that she lacked good moral character because “her later honesty . . . does not remove her from the ambit of the statute”
• requiring suspension applicants to demonstrate “good moral character” (citation and internal quotation marks omitted)
• “Failure to raise an argument before the BIA deprives this court of jurisdiction.” (citations omitted)
• “For a witness’s false testimony to preclude a finding of good moral character, the testimony must have been made orally and under oath.”
• to preclude good moral character, witness must have had a subjective intent to deceive for the purpose of obtaining immigration benefits

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).