MEZA
Citations
- 20 I. & N. Dec. 257
Syllabus
MEZA, 20 I&N Dec. 257 (BIA 1991) ID 3146 (PDF) (1) Pursuant to priorprecedent decisions of the Board of Immigration Appeals, a waiver undersection 212(c) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C. §1182(c) (1988), is available in deportation proceedings only to thosealiens who have been found deportable under a ground of deportabilityfor which there is a comparable ground of excludability. (2) Section 212(c) of the Act as amended by the Immigration Act of 1990, Pub. L. No. 101-649,§ 511, 104 Stat. 4978, 5052, implies that some aliens who have beenconvicted of an aggravated felony are eligible for a section 212(c) waiver, although clearly no alien who has been convicted of an aggravated felonyand has served a term of imprisonment of at least 5 years is eligible for a waiver under section 212(c) as amended. (3) An alien deportableunder section 241(a)(4)(B) of the Act, 8 U.S.C. § 1251(a)(4)(B) (1988),for a drug-related aggravated felony which could also form the basis forexcludability under section 212(a)(23) is not precluded from establishingeligibility for a section 212(c) waiver.
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