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22-2114·IMMIGRATION

Sintia Nivar Santana v. Todd Blanche

Status
  1. Scheduled
  2. Argued (current)
  3. Opinion Issued
Question Presented

Propriety of treating previously admitted noncitizen who applies to adjust status as an alien seeking admission and thus imposing higher evidentiary burden.

Argument Date
September 15, 2026
Argument Time
9:30 a.m.
Panel
II
Courtroom
Butzner Courtroom (Room 201)

Panel

Judge King
Judge Thacker
Judge Heytens

Citation

CaseSintia Nivar Santana v. Todd Blanche, No. 22-2114 (4th Cir. argued Sept. 15, 2026)
PanelKing, Thacker & Heytens, JJ.

Arguing Counsel

Panel That Day

0 of 2 cases argued September 15, 2026 before this panel have been decided.

Authorship Outlook

No opinions from this panel have been decided yet, so authorship can't be narrowed — the 2 pending opinions could come from any of the panelists.

This is a statistical guess based on prior sittings in this dataset, not a prediction of the ruling.

Predicted Opinion Release

Likely between November 4, 2026 and March 27, 2027, with December 6, 2026 the most likely date.

Argued 43 days ago. Comparable cases at this stage almost always still pending — there's no useful tightening yet.

■ ■ □Calibrated (160 prior subject cases + 2 prior panel cases)

80% predictive interval from a log-logistic accelerated-failure-time model fit on 2,134 prior decided cases plus 111 currently-pending cases as right-censored evidence. Updates as days pass with no opinion. How this is calculated →

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