Deportation Defense in Dundalk

How We Review a Dundalk Deportation Defense Case

Our consultation begins with the facts and records that shape the case. We review the person’s immigration history, prior applications, and available government documents, then discuss possible defenses and requests for relief.

When removal issues involve Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals questions, our review may include court notices, detention history, prior orders, and Executive Office for Immigration Review records. These documents can reveal procedural details that aren’t clear from a single notice or application.

Removal allegations commonly involve deportability or inadmissibility. Deportability concerns whether a noncitizen already in the country may be removed. Inadmissibility concerns whether a person may enter the United States or qualify for certain immigration benefits. This distinction can affect the legal questions and possible forms of relief.

Potential Forms of Relief from Removal

No single form of relief applies to every case. Eligibility may depend on immigration status, time in the United States, family relationships, past applications, fear of return, and criminal history. Senior Associate Halle Blitzstein focuses on asylum, withholding of removal, and other removal defense matters before the court.

Options that may be considered include:

• Cancellation of removal: Relief that may permit an eligible person to avoid removal after meeting requirements set by immigration law.
• Asylum: Protection that may be available to a person who meets the legal requirements based on persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution.
• Withholding of removal: A separate form of protection with standards and consequences distinct from asylum.
• Adjustment of status: A potential path to lawful permanent resident status for someone who meets the applicable requirements.
• Voluntary departure: Permission to leave the country voluntarily under specified conditions rather than under a removal order.

Non-Lawful Permanent Resident Cancellation

Non-lawful permanent resident cancellation generally requires at least 10 years of continuous physical presence, good moral character during that period, no disqualifying convictions, and exceptional and extremely unusual hardship to a qualifying relative. That relative must be a spouse, parent, or child who holds U.S. citizenship or permanent resident status.

Service of a Notice to Appear can stop the period of continuous physical presence used for this form of cancellation. Cancellation for green card holders follows different requirements, so status and immigration history must be reviewed before drawing conclusions about either option.