Decision date: 2017-02-27

Holding the Board of Immigration Appeals properly relied on its precedential decision in Matter of C-J-H- to find that noncitizens who have voluntarily adjusted to Legal Permanent Resident (LPR) status under 8 U.S.C. § 1159(b) do not retain their asylum status and are deportable as LPRs, even without the Attorney General formally terminating their asylum status pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1158(c).

Publication Status: Published

Case judge: Diaz, Niemeyer, Traxler

Decision: Mahmood v. Sessions, 849 F.3d 187 (4th Cir. 2017)