Post-Conviction Relief for Immigrants

(A)  Exclusion.  A JRAD additionally precludes a CMT conviction from being used as a basis of inadmissibility.[70]

[A JRAD], if it was validly issued, barred the INS from considering his conviction of a crime of moral turpitude either as a ground for deportation under 8 U.S.C. § 1251(a)(4), Jew Ten v. INS, 307 F.2d 832, 834-35 (9th Cir. 1962), cert. denied, 371 U.S. 968, 83 S.Ct. 551, 9 L.Ed.2d 538 (1963), or as a ground for excluding him from admissibility to the United States under 8 U.S.C. § 1182(a)(2)(A)(i)(I), see Matter of K—, 9 I. & N. Dec. 121, 125 (BIA 1960) (extending beneficial effect of JRAD to 8 U.S.C. § 1182(a)(9), the equivalent of § 1182(a)(2)(A)(i)(I) of the current statute).[71]

[70] United States v. Castro, 26 F.3d 557, 557 n.2 (5th Cir. 1994) (judicial recommendation against deportation prevents use of a conviction to exclude a noncitizen from entering the United States); Santos v. Kolb, 880 F.2d 941, 942 nn.1-2 (7th Cir. 1989), cert. denied, 493 U.S. 1059, 110 S.Ct. 873, 107 L.Ed.2d 956 (1990); Rasmussen v. Robinson, 163 F.2d 732 (3d Cir. 1947) (JRAD prevents use of the conviction as basis of inadmissibility); United States v. Sanchez-Guzman, 744 F.Supp. 997, 999-1000 n.5 (E.D.Wash.1990); Matter of K--, 9 I. & N. Dec. 121 (BIA 1960); Matter of C, 6 I. & N. Dec. 709 (BIA 1955), overruled on other grounds by Matter of Y M, 8 I. & N. Dec. 94 (BIA 1958); Matter of H, 3 I. & N. Dec. 236 (BIA 1948) (properly issued judicial recommendation against “deportation” effectively prevents exclusion on account of the conviction of a crime of moral turpitude for which it was issued).

[71] Rashtabadi v. INS, 23 F.3d 1562, 1568 (9th Cir. 1994).