Court Opinion

ID: 9497406
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 16:50:56.494612+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:58:11.051970
License: Public Domain

BRIGHT, Circuit Judge,
concurring separately.
I concur with the majority that substantial evidence in the record supports the immigration judge’s conclusion that Ateka had intentionally made a false representation of United States citizenship in completing Form 1-9 to seek employment from an employer. I write separately to underscore that this opinion is not to be applied as a per se bar to an immigrant’s residence status in other cases where an immigrant may have made a false statement of United States citizenship to obtain private employment.
Whether such misstatement in an application and, thereafter, obtaining of private employment amounts to a “benefit under this chapter,” as that phrase is used in section 1182(a)(6)(C)(ii)(I), is an important question which was not raised nor decided in this case. Such a determination remains for another case on another day.