ESTRADA-CARDONA v. GARLAND

No. 21-9562.

44 F.4th 1275 (2022)

Mayra Veronica ESTRADA-CARDONA, Petitioner, v. Merrick B. GARLAND, United States Attorney General, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

FILED August 17, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jennifer M. Smith of Jennifer Smith Law Office, Glenwood Spring, Colorado ( Mark R. Barr of Lichter Immigration, Denver, Colorado, with her on the briefs), for Petitioner.

Keith McManus , Office of Immigration Litigation ( Brian Boynton , Acting Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division; Jessica E. Burns , Senior Litigation Counsel, Office of Immigration Litigation; Spencer S. Shucard , Trial Attorney, Office of Immigration Litigation, on the brief), United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Respondent.

Before HARTZ, BALDOCK, and McHUGH, Circuit Judges.


The Attorney General may allow otherwise-removable aliens to remain in the country if, among other things, they have accrued 10 years of continuous physical presence in the United States. We call this form of discretionary relief "cancellation of removal." Under the statutory "stop-time rule," the period of continuous physical...

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