The US Supreme Court , on Monday, ruled 5-4 in opposition to an Indian citizen who faces deportation from the nation for ticking a field on driver’s license application originate pointing out he modified into as soon as a U.S. citizen.
The petitioner, Pankajkumar Patel , had entered the U.S. illegally alongside with his wife, Jyotsnaben, within the 1990s, based on court docket paperwork. He had utilized to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Companies and products (USCIS) for discretionary ‘adjustment of quandary’ ( a step within the inexperienced card direction of) in 2007. USCIS had denied his adjustment application for permanent location (i.e., a inexperienced card) because it modified into as soon as conscious that Mr. Patel had falsely acknowledged he modified into as soon as a U.S. citizen on a driver’s license application within the train of Georgia.
The court docket paperwork instruct that the U.S. authorities started elimination court docket cases in opposition to Mr. Patel years after this. Mr. Patel argued, unsuccessfully, sooner than an immigration pick that he had mistakenly ticked the originate and therefore did now not violate the law. The pick disagreed. Mr. Patel then appealed the resolution with the Board of Immigration Appeals and lost. He then approached a federal appeals court docket ( the Eleventh Circuit) which ruled that it did now not possess jurisdiction within the case, announcing the law did now not allow federal courts to investigate info came upon sooner or later of a discretionary-reduction proceeding.
Mr. Patel within the slay petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court in January
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