PERMANENT RESIDENT CLIENT WINS "CANCELLATION OF REMOVAL" IN NEWARK IMMIGRATION COURT
The client is a citizen of Sierra Leone who entered the United States as a asylee (a person granted asylum) in 1999 and who was granted lawful permanent resident status in 2005. The client was granted "cancellation of removal" in Newark Immigration Court on June 15, 2017, following completion of a sentence of five years in New Jersey State Prison for unlawful possession of an unregistered firearm. BACKGROUND As a youngster in Sierra Leone the client witnessed horrible violen
