Salvador Villanueva-Perez v. Eric Holder, Jr.

MEMORANDUM

Petitioner Salvador Villanueva-Perez petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’s order dismissing his appeal and affirming the Immigration Judge’s decision. The Immigration Judge found Villanueva-Perez removable and ineligible for relief. Villanueva-Perez argues that he is eligible for both cancellation of removal, 8 U.S.C. § 1229b(a), and adjustment of status, 8 U.S.C. § 1255 (a). We deny Villanueva-Perez’s petition for review.

Villanueva-Perez was admitted to the United States as a lawful permanent resident in 1981. After receiving LPR status, he was convicted of three criminal offenses. In 1991, he pleaded guilty to second degree robbery, an aggravated felony. In 1998, he pleaded guilty to willful infliction of corporal injury to his spouse. Then, in 2004, he pleaded nolo contendere to willful cruelty to a child.

Based on the 1998 conviction, Immigration and Customs Enforcement charged Villanueva-Perez as removable under Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) § 237(a)(2)(E)(i), 8 U.S.C. § 1227 (a)(2)(E)(i), as an “alien who at any time after admission is convicted of a crime of domestic violence.” As relief from removal, Villanueva requested either…