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Vartelas v. Holder

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A quick definition of Vartelas v. Holder:

In Vartelas v. Holder, the Supreme Court had to decide if a law that allowed legal permanent residents to be removed from the US if they had committed a crime and left the country applied to people who had left before the law was passed. The Court decided that the old law applied to those people, not the new law. This meant that Panagis Vartelas, who had left the US before the new law was passed, could not be removed from the country. Justice Scalia disagreed with the decision, saying that the new law only applied to people who tried to come back to the US after it was passed.

A more thorough explanation:

Vartelas v. Holder is a legal case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in 2012.

The case dealt with the question of whether a law passed in 1996, called the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRIRA), applies retroactively to lawful permanent residents who were convicted of a crime and left the United States before the law was passed. The Court held that the law that was in effect at the time of the conviction applies, not the IIRIRA.

Panagis Vartelas was a lawful permanent resident of the United States who was convicted of a crime in 1994. At the time, he was allowed to briefly leave the country without losing his status. However, in 1996, the IIRIRA was passed, which changed the law and made it so that people like Vartelas could face removal proceedings if they left the country. In 2003, Vartelas went to Greece to visit family and was subject to the IIRIRA. He was placed in removal proceedings.

The example illustrates how the IIRIRA affected Vartelas' situation. Before the law was passed, he was allowed to leave the country without losing his status. However, after the law was passed, he was subject to removal proceedings if he left the country. The Court held that the law that was in effect at the time of his conviction applied, not the IIRIRA.

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soapy
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USC still has not looked at my app
WorthlessAttractiveZombie
9:43
when did you submit soapy?
soapy
9:44
10/16
WorthlessAttractiveZombie
9:44
to be fair it took them almost 2 months for me to go under review
soapy
9:44
Feelin a bit stressed, as I've got no date change for Michigan either despite applying 10/7
WorthlessAttractiveZombie
9:45
I have not had a date change either for Mich but I've seen people get in without one so who knows
I applied 9/25 to like 6 schools and some (Houston) have no date change yet so dw
soapy
9:46
But do people get in without addresses going long?
WorthlessAttractiveZombie
9:46
it's tough to tell because a lot of people type out their addresses long to begin with
soapy
9:46
Ah. I didn't. Looking back, my Mich supplement kind of sucks, so there's that
Mich overrated (Dean Z please let me in even tho i didnt apply and I am below both 25ths)
ClassyPleasantHeron
10:01
The "date changes" at Michigan really don't mean anything. We had to do them in undergrad admissions whenever a Georgia applicant picked the country instead of the state, because we'd have to remove the TOEFL requirement and reassign the application from the international application readers.
soapy
10:06
Classy, does that mean they may look at your application, and that look doesn't necessarily trigger any date change?
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1a2b3c4d26z
10:07
What a good day to get into law school
ClassyPleasantHeron
10:11
@soapy: I don't know for sure about the law school. For undergrad, once the application is complete, it's assigned to a reader the following Monday. If we had to make any changes, it's because a reader saw something that needed to be changed and the application needed to be re-read after that change.
soapy
10:12
Ahh, got it. Thank you for the insight!
ClassyPleasantHeron
10:14
You're welcome. FWIW, I have no idea what's up with the address changes. We didn't have to do any of that, except for the Georgia state vs country kinds of things.
soapy
10:15
I've heard it theorized that some schools will change the address from "St." --> "Street" as they prepare to send out admissions packets. That's the rumor, anyways.
i think it just indicates a change in status like under review or stages of review
my stanford address went long as soon as it was marked complete lmao
soapy
10:25
I saw some Reddit adcom say that they can see any time we refresh the status checker; I wonder if it's a red flag if an applicant's checked it like 50 times in a day?
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