Cancellation of removal for nonpermanent residents allows foreign nationals in the US who are currently in removal proceedings to remain in the US an obtain permanent residency (green card).\u00a0 Removal may be canceled if the application meets the following four conditions:<\/p>\n
1.\u00a0 The applicant is currently in removal proceedings because he or she is inadmissible or deportable;<\/p>\n
2.\u00a0 The applicant has been physically and continuously present in the US for ten years;<\/p>\n
3.\u00a0 The applicant has had good moral character for that period of time;<\/p>\n
4.\u00a0 The applicant must not have been convicted of certain criminal offenses; and<\/p>\n
5.\u00a0 The applicant must demonstrate that removal would cause exceptional and extremely unusual hardship to his or her lawful permanent resident (LPR) or US citizen spouse, child or parent.<\/p>\n
An applicant is barred from obtaining cancellation of removal if:<\/p>\n
1.\u00a0 He of she has previously been granted cancellation of removal, suspension of deportation or other relief under INA Section 212(c);<\/p>\n
2.\u00a0 He or she has persecuted others or is inadmissible under security or related grounds;<\/p>\n
3.\u00a0 He or she entered as a crewman after June 30, 1964;<\/p>\n
4.\u00a0 He or she was a J-1 visa holder for the purpose of graduate medical training; and<\/p>\n
5.\u00a0 J visa holders who are subject to INA Section 212(E) and have not completed the two year home residency requirement nor have received a J-1 visa waiver.<\/p>\n
If the judge grants the applicant\u2019s request for cancellation of removal, then the applicant will be able to adjust to lawful permanent resident (green card).\u00a0 If the judge denies the applicant\u2019s request for cancellation, he will enter an order of removal and the applicant will be removed from the US<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Cancellation of removal for nonpermanent residents allows foreign nationals in the US who are currently in removal proceedings to remain in the US an obtain permanent residency (green card).\u00a0 Removal may be canceled if the application meets the following four conditions: 1.\u00a0 The applicant is currently in removal proceedings because he or she is inadmissible … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,42,41],"tags":[194,193,192],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancellation-of-removal","category-deportation","category-removal","tag-cancellation-of-removal","tag-deportation","tag-removal"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions\/168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}