Legal Opinion
Saley Souley v. Eric Holder, Jr.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 11, 2015No. 14-2536PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Per curiam
Saley Souley, a citizen of Niger, petitions for review from the denial of his request to continue his removal proceedings to give his U.S. citizen wife time to file a second 1-130 visa petition on his behalf (the government had already denied her first). The IJ thought her second, unfiled petition had no greater chance of success and denied the request for a continuance. Because Souley did not present evidence of good cause for the continuance, we deny the petition for review.
Souley entered the United States in 2005 on a visitor’s visa (the validity of which is not reflected in the record)…
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