Safe Havens

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§4.1 I. Introduction
§4.2 II. Checklist of Conviction-Based Grounds of Deportation
§4.3 III. Checklist of General Safe Havens
§4.4 IV. Alienage
§4.5 A. United States Citizens
§4.6 B. Nationals of the United States
§4.7 C. American Indians Born in Canada
§4.8 V. Non-Conviction Dispositions In General
§4.9 VI. Dispositions That Are Not Crimes
§4.10 A. Juvenile Delinquency Findings
§4.11 B. The Conviction Must Be for a Crime
§4.12 C. Foreign Convictions
§4.13 VII. Dispositions That Are Not Convictions
§4.14 A. Immigration Law Definition of Conviction
§4.15 B. Acquittal
§4.16 C. Dismissal Before Conviction
§4.17 D. Deferred Prosecution
§4.18 E. Deferred Verdict
§4.19 F. Deferred Sentence
§4.20 VIII. Convictions That Are Not Final
§4.21 A. Direct Appeal
§4.22 B. Slow Plea Dispositions
§4.23 C. Late Appeal
§4.24 IX. Convictions Eliminated by Post-Conviction Relief
§4.25 A. Judicial Recommendations Against Deportation
§4.26 B. Pardoned Offenses
§4.27 C. State Rehabilitative Relief
§4.28 D. Convictions Vacated as Legally Invalid
§4.29 E. Sentences Eliminated by Post-Conviction Relief
§4.30 X. Defective Convictions
§4.31 A. Convictions by Court Without Jurisdiction
§4.32 B. Convictions in Absentia
§4.33 C. Other Defects
§4.34 XI. Convictions that Do Not Follow �Admission�
§4.35 XII. Foreign Convictions

§ 4.24 (A)

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(A) Judicial Recommendations Against Deportation. JRADs that have been properly granted prior to November 29, 1990, are effective to eliminate convictions of crimes of moral turpitude and aggravated felonies as grounds of deportation. See § 4.25, infra.