TORRES v. BARR

No. 13-70653.

976 F.3d 918 (2020)

Catherine Lopena TORRES, Petitioner, v. William P. BARR, Attorney General, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed September 24, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen Carl Woodruff (argued), Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands; Janet H. King , King Law Offices, Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands; Daniel S. Volchok , Alex Hemmer , and Rebecca M. Lee , Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, Washington, D.C.; for Petitioner.

Lisa Damiano , Attorney; William C. Minick , Trial Attorney; Aimee J. Carmichael , Senior Litigation Counsel; John W. Blakeley , Assistant Director; Joseph H. Hunt , Assistant Attorney General; Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; for Respondent.

Charles Roth , National Immigrant Justice Center, Chicago, Illinois, for Amici Curiae Organizations Assisting Survivors of Domestic Violence.

Before: Sidney R. Thomas, Chief Judge, and Kim McLane Wardlaw, Ronald M. Gould, Johnnie B. Rawlinson, Consuelo M. Callahan, Milan D. Smith, Jr., Sandra S. Ikuta, Paul J. Watford, Daniel A. Bress, Danielle J. Hunsaker and Patrick J. Bumatay, Circuit Judges.


OPINION

The Immigration and Nationality Act (INA or "the Act") suddenly applied to the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) on November 28, 2009. By that point, Catherine Lopena Torres had been lawfully living and working in the CNMI for over a decade. Though she had never applied to enter the United...

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