Garcia v. Attorney General, ___ F.3d ___, 2006 WL 2529471 (3d Cir. Sept. 5, 2006) (Manufacturing is not necessarily drug trafficking because it may be for personal use).

Garcia v. Attorney General, ___ F.3d ___, 2006 WL 2529471 (3d Cir. Sept. 5, 2006) (criminal complaint containing charge against the defendant may be consulted when consideration of record of conviction is appropriate in deciding whether conviction falls within ground of deportation for immigration purposes, especially where state law does not require subsequent indictment or information to convict).

Garcia v. Attorney General, ___ F.3d ___, 2006 WL 2529471 (3d Cir. Sept. 5, 2006) (even though statute was phrased in disjunctive, record of conviction including complaint indicated defendant had sold, delivered, and possessed controlled substances with intent to deliver, which sufficiently established trafficking element to constitute drug trafficking aggravated felony under "illicit trafficking" route of INA 101(a)(43)(B), 8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(43)(B)).

Matter of Patel, 16 I. & N. 600 (BIA 1978) (once there is a remand that is not limited or qualified, the immigration judge may consider other and further relief).



A respondent may therefore apply for additional discretionary relief before the Immigration Judge when the BIA remands a case, unless the BIA has specifically limited the purposes for which the case is remanded.

CRS Report for Congress on Social Security Benefits for Noncitizens, updated July 20, 2006.
http://bibdaily.com/pdfs/CRS%20social%20security%20benefits%20noncitizen...

Lazo v. Gonzales, 462 F.3d 53 (2d Cir. Sept. 1, 2006) (where IJ found removability, but granted relief, then BIA reverses grant of relief, BIA has jurisdiction to order noncitizen deported without remand to IJ), following Solano-Chicas v. Gonzales, 440 F.3d 1050, 1053-54 (8th Cir.2006); Del Pilar v. U.S. Att'y Gen., 326 F.3d 1154, 1156 (11th Cir.2003); Delgado-Reyuna v. Gonzalez, 450 F.3d 596, 600 (5th Cir. 2006). Disagrees with Molina-Camacho v. Ashcroft, 393 F.3d 937, 940-41 (9th Cir.2004).

By Catherine F. Klein, Leslye E. Orloff & Hema Sarangapani. 39 Fam. L.Q. 109, Spring 2005. "This article will provide an overview of the impact of state criminal parental kidnapping or custodial interference statutes on immigrant survivors of domestic violence who already have left or wish to leave their state with their children."
http://bibdaily.com/pdfs/Border%20Crossings%2039_Fam_L_Q_109.pdf

Wallace v. Gonzales, 463 F.3d 135 (2nd Cir. Sept. 1, 2006) (adjudication as a "Youthful Offender" under New York State criminal law, N.Y.Crim. Proc. Law 720.10-720.35, may be used in determining whether noncitizen should be granted adjustment of status as a matter of discretion, even those the adjudication is not a "conviction" for removability purposes).

Wallace v. Gonzales, __ F.3d __, 2006 WL 2588018 (2nd Cir. Sept. 1, 2006) (adjudication as a "Youthful Offender" under New York State criminal law, N.Y.Crim. Proc. Law 720.10-720.35, may be used in determining whether noncitizen should be granted adjustment of status as a matter of discretion, even those the adjudication is not a "conviction" for removability purposes).

Matter of Liadov, 23 I&N Dec. 990 (BIA Sept. 12, 2006) (BIA lacks authority to extend 30-day time limit for filing appeal)
http://www.usdoj.gov/eoir/vll/intdec/vol23/3540.pdf