On June 19, 2013, a Kenyan couple whom I represented in a removal trial, was granted mixed relief by Immigration Judge Renner of the San Diego, California Immigration Court, following trial of their humanitarian immigration claims. One spouse was granted withholding of removal, which does not carry automatic derivative status to the other spouse as an asylum approval would, while the other spouse was granted an administrative closure of removal proceedings in the interest of Prosecutorial Discretion (PD). The humanitarian claims were filed literally decades after the applicants first arrived in the US, and hence their asylum claims were burdened by INA 208(a)(2)(B)'s one-year filing requirement. Both spouses will now be allowed to remain in the US indefinitely without fear of removal to Kenya.
We are gratified at this very just result and express the clients' gratitude to the Court and DHS counsel, Ms. Mubarakee, for their thoughtulness and humanity in this matter.
By: Duane Hamilton
Wow! Congrats!!
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