McKenzie-Francisco v. Holder, No. 10-2013 (1st Cir. 2011)
Annotate this CaseIn 1999 petitioner, a citizen of the Dominican Republic, entered the U.S. without inspection. He married a U.S. citizen in 2001 and obtained conditional resident status 8 U.S.C. 1186a(a)(1). The marriage ended in 2004. He applied for a hardship waiver of the requirement of submitting a joint petition to remove the condition. The IJ determined that the marriage had not been in good faith and ordered removal. The BIA affirmed. The First Circuit denied review. The IJ based the decision on contradictory accounts, by petitioner and his ex-spouse, about the details of the marriage; petitioner placed the marriage at issue and cannot complain that he did not have notice of the issue.
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