An immigrant from Mauritania is subject to removal under a Second Circuit opinion, even though the court said it wasn’t the correct venue for his appeal.
The case gave the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit a chance to take a side in a circuit split over which venue is proper when an immigration proceeding is held via video teleconference.
The Immigration and Nationality Act says that venue for a petition to review a decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals is proper in the circuit “in which the immigration judge completed the proceedings.”
Mamadou Sarr unsuccessfully applied ...
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