Zenaida Adviento WATKINS, Petitioner, v. IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE, Respondent

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• holding that the Board abuses its discretion when it does not “consider all relevant factors before ruling”
• holding that hardship in relation to domestic partner not specified for consideration in the statute may be considered
• finding that BIA erred because, of those factors it did consider, it considered them in isolation
• finding exceptional circumstances to overcome failure to appear where no meaningful opportu- nity existed for the respondent to be heard
• faulting the Board for failure to consider the cumulative effect of factors in a suspension case
• relating to consideration cumulatively of spouse’s hardship, fear of persecution, child’s inability to master a foreign language, and psychological factors

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