IMMIGRATION UPDATE

The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed (on Monday, April 30th, 2012) to hear an appeal from immigrant Roselva Chaidez on whether to apply retroactively the Court's 2010 decision that immigrants have the right to be informed that a guilty plea could lead to their deportation.

Ms. Chaidez was in the process of being deported from the United States when the court made that decision in March 2010.

Chaidez pleaded guilty to fraud in 2004 after falsely claiming to be a passenger in a car wreck. Authorities started deportation procedures while she was applying for U.S. citizenship in 2007.

Her lawyer never told her that her fraud conviction may lead to her deportation. Chaidez says she should be able to take advantage of the Supreme Court decision that cemented that principle.

[www.breakinglegalnews.com]