Overview
- Vedam’s attorneys say the Board of Immigration Appeals has issued a temporary stay of removal while it considers his petition.
- A U.S. district court in Pennsylvania separately granted a stay, leaving two orders instructing ICE not to deport him.
- Vedam, 64, was freed on October 3 after a Centre County judge vacated his murder conviction based on previously suppressed FBI ballistics evidence, and prosecutors declined to retry.
- ICE cites a decades‑old no‑contest plea to LSD delivery as the basis for deportation, and DHS says the murder vacatur does not affect that conviction.
- He remains detained at a short‑term facility in Alexandria, Louisiana, and a decision on BIA review could take months as his family and lawyers seek reopening and discretionary relief.