Opinion ID: 3048124
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 5

Heading: July 2008 Hearing

Text: 7 At the next hearing, on July 30, 2008, McTyier again represented Alhuay. No interpreter was present. The IJ reviewed Alhuay’s 1993 marriage license application and noted that it did not “help[] the case.” In her 1993 application to marry Quesnay, Alhuay had disclosed neither her first marriage, to Saldana, nor her belief that she was divorced from Saldana. The IJ stated that it appeared Alhuay had made misrepresentations on the application and “engaged in marriage fraud” because “[i]f she thought she was divorced in Peru, she would have told the State of Nevada [in the 1993 marriage license application] that she was divorced in Peru.” The IJ concluded: [Alhuay] told me during direct testimony that she thought she was divorced to somebody in Peru and she submitted a document from that person saying that she thought she was divorced. However, when she gets remarried in Nevada, you’ve just given me a document here that says she believes that she was divorced in Nevada on February 25, 1993. There’s no basis for that. That’s not her testimony and it’s further misrepresentation in the case.4 On the issue of removability, the IJ ruled that “the Government ha[d] sustained its burden in [the] case.” The IJ sustained the charges in the NTA, instructed Alhuay to file any applications for relief from removal, and set another hearing date.