Non-Citizen Wins Chance to Expand Recent High Court Ruling

A Guatemalan national seeking to take advantage of a 2018 Supreme Court ruling will get his day in front of the justices.

That 2018 ruling upended the Department of Homeland Security’s long-time practice of mailing “notices to appear” for deportation proceedings without the time and date of the hearing.

Such an incomplete notice doesn’t trigger the so-called stop-time rule, which determines whether a non-citizen is eligible for relief from removal.

Intended to avoid hardships for long-time U.S. residents and their U.S.-citizen children, eligibility for removal relief requires that the non-citizen has lived in the U.S. for either seven years or ...