Sejdini v. Holder, No. 12-3222 (6th Cir. 2013)
Annotate this CaseSejdini and his family are from the former Yugoslavia. In 1987, Sejdini, then less than a year old, entered the U.S., traveling with his mother by boat from Canada. In 1999, the government placed Sejdini in removal proceedings. In 2003, an immigration judge granted Sejdini a special-rule cancellation of removal under section 203 of the Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central American Relief Act, which in 1997 had amended the Immigration and Nationality Act. In 2010, Sejdini was convicted in Michigan state court for possession of Vicodin and ecstasy, for which he received a prison sentence of 18 months to 10 years. The government began removal proceedings; Sejdini applied for cancellation of removal under section 240A(a) of the INA, but the immigration judge barred him, from applying for this relief because he had already received cancellation of removal under the Nicaraguan Act. The BIA affirmed. The Sixth Circuit denied a petition for review, concluding that cancellation of removal under the Nicaraguan Act is cancellation of removal under section 240A of the INA.
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