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Deportation case dropped after woman gets IR status
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Posted on Jul 22 2008
The Superior Court dismissed yesterday a deportation case filed last year against a Filipino woman after discovering that she had obtained an Immediate Relative entry permit.
Associate Judge David A. Wiseman cited “good cause shown” as the reason for the dismissal.
In petition, filed in November 2007, the Attorney General’s Office and Immigration asked Dolores B. De Guzman to explain to the court why she should not be deported for remaining in the CNMI for six years and five months past the expiration of her papers.
Wiseman ordered the dismissal after the petitioners, through assistant attorney general Kathleen Busenkell, moved to drop the petition.
Busenkell said De Guzman has complied with all terms and conditions of the settlement agreement, which was approved by the court last May.
The assistant AG said De Guzman has normalized her immigration status and was issued a 706D IR entry permit, which expires on May 22, 2009.
Court records show that in November 2007, Immigration investigator Abram C. Togawa filed the petition after finding that De Guzman’s long-term tourist entry permit had expired on June 19, 2001.
On April 24, 2008, the petitioners, through then-counsel assistant attorney general Kevin Lynch, and De Guzman entered a settlement agreement.
