Post-Conviction Relief for Immigrants

(C)  Removal Proceedings.  The new 1996 revision of the INA combines both exclusion proceedings (the process of refusing to allow a noncitizen to enter the United States or acquire permanent residence or other lawful status here) and deportation proceedings (the process of evicting a noncitizen with or without lawful status from the United States), into a new unified procedure termed “removal proceedings.” 

            Because the body of law that defines the grounds of inadmissibility[22] is quite different from that defining the grounds of deportability,[23] the former terms of exclusion or inadmissibility and deportation will be used here for clarity.

[22] INA § 212, 8 U.S.C. § 1182.

[23] INA § 237, 8 U.S.C. § 1227.