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Monthly Archives: September 2026
Your Old Arrest Can Finally Disappear: Illinois Expungement and Sealing in 2026
Illinois Expungement and Sealing: What You Can Clear in 2026 Illinois Expungement and Sealing: What You Can Clear in 2026 Illinois criminal records · Updated September 22, 2026 An old arrest can keep showing up long after the case is … Continue reading
Posted in Criminal Law, Expungement and Sealing, Expunging and Sealing, Expunging, sealing criminal records
Tagged 20 ILCS 2630/5.2, cannabis expungement, Clean Slate Act, Cook County, criminal records, felony sealing, Illinois sealing, immigration consequences, llinois expungement, Matter of Roldan, minor cannabis offense, Public Act 104-0459, Public Act 104-0463, State v. Meinhardt, Wis. Stat. 973.015, Wisconsin expunction
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The Board Just Turned a 1952 Draft-Dodger Law Into a Permanent, Unwaivable Bar for Aggravated Felons
For anyone whose guilty plea or jury verdict comes after September 17, 2026, an aggravated felony conviction can close off the path to a green card by itself. It does this not through the criminal grounds of inadmissibility Congress actually … Continue reading
Posted in Adjustment of Status, Aggravated felony, AGGRAVATED FELONY CASE SUMMARY, BIA, Board of Immigration Appeals
Tagged 212(h) waiver, aggravated felony, BIA, Castañon-Nava, crimmigration, INA 101(a)(19), INA 212(a)(8)(A), INA 316(a), ineligible to citizenship, Matter of A-V-O-, Matter of Kanga, naturalization, Padilla v. Kentucky, Seventh Circuit
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Matter of Diji: The Board Killed a 25-Year Notice Rule It Didn’t Need To
Ifeanyi Diji showed up to collect his green card and learned he had already lost. On June 3, 2025, he walked into his marriage-based adjustment interview, married to a United States citizen, and found out an Immigration Judge had ordered … Continue reading
