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Practice Resources / Practice Advisory: Adjustment of Status Following an Admission Does Not “Re-Start” the Five-Year Clock for Purposes of the Moral Turpitude Deportation Ground

Practice Advisory: Adjustment of Status Following an Admission Does Not “Re-Start” the Five-Year Clock for Purposes of the Moral Turpitude Deportation Ground

Matter of Alyazji , 25 I&N Dec. 397 (BIA 2011), overruling in part Matter of Shanu , 23 I&N Dec. 754 (BIA 2005).

Immigrant Legal Resource Center Practice advisory Feb 28, 2011 Direct PDF available

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Useful as a practitioner-oriented overview from Immigrant Legal Resource Center on Removal Defense; review the source material for the most current authority and procedure.

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