Opinion ID: 3161901
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Heading: Denial of Waiver of Inadmissibility

Text: An alien who procures a visa, other documentation, or admission into the United States through “fraud or willfully misrepresenting a material fact” is inadmissible. 8 U.S.C. § 1182(a)(6)(C)(i). The Attorney General has discretion to waive this ground of inadmissibility for an alien who “is the spouse, parent, son, or daughter of a citizen of the United States,” so long as the alien meets certain requirements. Id. § 1227(a)(1)(H). We lack jurisdiction to review the discretionary denial of waiver of inadmissibility under this provision. See id. §§ 1227(a)(1)(H), 1252(a)(2)(B)(ii). We do, however, have jurisdiction to review constitutional claims or questions of law raised in a petition for judicial review from the denial of waiver. See id. § 1252(a)(2)(D). Njie and Jallow contend that the IJ required them to show that their removal would cause their children to suffer hardship, even though § 1227(a)(1)(H) does not require such a showing. They claim that this additional requirement constituted an error of law, which the BIA failed to address on appeal. Our review of the IJ’s decision reveals that he did not require a hardship showing. Instead, in deciding whether to grant the applications for waiver, the IJ mentioned that Njie and Jallow had not shown that their removal would cause their children to suffer hardship. The IJ weighed this factor, along with several others, when he decided to deny the applications for waiver. Although Njie and Jallow have argued that the IJ committed -5- legal error, they in effect are challenging the IJ’s weighing of the evidence and his subsequent decision that they “failed to establish that [they] merit[] section 237(a)(1)(H) waiver[s].” As explained above, we do not have jurisdiction to review the discretionary denial of waiver of inadmissibility.