Post-Conviction Relief for Immigrants

(G)  Grounds of Inadmissibility.  A somewhat smaller list of crime-related grounds of inadmissibility is found in 8 U.S.C. § 1182.  This includes a conviction of a crime involving moral turpitude, or a conviction of a crime related to a controlled substance on the federal list, or two or more convictions regardless of their nature resulting in a sentences totaling five or more years of confinement.[29]  

[29] INA § 212(a)(2), 8 U.S.C. § 1182(a)(2).  For a comprehensive list of grounds of inadmissibility, see N. Tooby, Criminal Defense of Immigrants, Appendix G (2003).