Lim v. Holder Jr., No. 09-70042 (9th Cir. 2013)
Annotate this CasePetitioner, a native and citizen of South Korea, petitioned for review of a decision by the BIA ordering his removal from the United States because he violated the terms of his student visa. The court denied the petition, rejecting petitioner's contention that he was eligible for cancellation of removal because he could meet the required ten years of continuous presence in the United States. Petitioner claimed that he qualified for the special continuous presence exception available to honorably discharged aliens who have served in active duty status in the United States military, pursuant to 8 U.S.C. 1229b(d)(3), because he was out of the country completing military service in South Korea.
Court Description: Immigration. The panel denied Hyuk Joon Lim’s petition for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ decision finding him ineligible for cancellation of removal for failure to establish the requisite continuous physical presence in the United States. The panel held that Lim did not qualify for the continuous presence exception available to aliens who served in active duty in the United States Armed Forces, under 8 U.S.C. § 1229b(d)(3), because he was absent from this country while completing mandatory military service in the South Korean armed forces. The panel held that Congress had a rational basis for limiting the exception to aliens serving in our military.
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