Tooby's California Post-Conviction Relief for Immigrants

(B)

Disqualification from Relief.  A noncitizen is disqualified from eligibility for a number of different forms of immigration relief if s/he has two or three misdemeanor convictions, including:

            (1)  Amnesty (the two Legalization Programs)(three misdemeanor convictions), see N. Tooby & J. Rollin, Criminal Defense of Immigrants § § 24.9-24.11 (2007);

            (2)  the Family Unity Program (two misdemeanor convictions), see N. Tooby & J. Rollin, Criminal Defense of Immigrants § § 24.8 (2007);

            (3)  Political Asylum, see N. Tooby & J. Rollin, Criminal Defense of Immigrants § § 24.18 (2007);

            (4)  Restriction on Removal (formerly Withholding of Deportation), see N. Tooby & J. Rollin, Criminal Defense of Immigrants § § 24.31 (2007); and

            (5)  Temporary Protected Status (TPS) (two misdemeanor convictions).  See N. Tooby & J. Rollin, Criminal Defense of Immigrants § § 24.25 (2007).

If sufficient misdemeanor convictions are reduced to infractions to bring the person below the bar, the bar to these forms of relief will no longer be triggered.