VELERIO-RAMIREZ v. LYNCH

No. 14-2318.

808 F.3d 111 (2015)

Lizbeth Patricia VELERIO-RAMIREZ, Petitioner, v. Loretta E. LYNCH, Attorney General of the United States.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

December 11, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mary P. Holper , Director, Boston College Legal Services LAB, Immigration Clinic, for petitioner.

Jem Colleen Sponzo , with whom Francis W. Fraser , Senior Litigation Counsel, Office of Immigration Litigation, United States Department of Justice, Benjamin C. Mizer , Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, and John W. Blakeley , Assistant Director, Office of Immigration Litigation, were on brief, for respondent.

Manny D. Vargas , Trina Realmuto , and Khaled Alrabe , on brief for the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild and the Immigrant Defense Project, amici curiae in support of petitioner.

Philip L. Torrey , on brief for Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program, Harvard Law School, amicus curiae in support of petitioner.

Before TORRUELLA, LYNCH, and KAYATTA, Circuit Judges.


Inconsistent characterization of the governing law by the immigration authorities and insufficient analysis by the Board of Immigration Appeals ("BIA") lead us, in an abundance of caution, to remand this petition to the BIA.

Lizbeth Patricia Velerio-Ramirez1 ("Valerio"), a native and citizen...

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