Criminal Defense of Immigrants

A number of other immigration consequences, aside from deportation and inadmissibility, are triggered by one or more qualifying convictions; including:

                (A)  Disqualification from some forms of immigration relief.  See generally, Chapter 24, infra.

                (B)  Mandatory detention.  See § 6.37, supra.

                (C)  Limitations on judicial review.  See, e.g., § 15.37(B)(1), infra.[11]

                (D)  Disqualification from demonstrating Good Moral Character required for certain forms of immigration relief.  See § 15.6, infra.

[11] Pondoc Hernaez v. INS, 244 F.3d 752 (9th Cir. 2001) (a conviction is required to trigger jurisdiction-stripping provision of IIRAIRA § 309(c)(4)(G)).