HAIM

interim Decision #3060 MATTER OF HAIM In Exclusion Proceedings A-28593629 Decided by Board April 11, 1988 (1) Where an immigration judge conducts an exclusion or deportation hearing in ab- sentia, an alien can move to have the immigration judge reopen the proceedings when the cause of the alien's failure to appear relates to facts not before the im- migration judge at the time of his decision. (2) When t1 he :is for a motion to reopen is that the immigration judge held an in absentia hearing, the alien must establish that he had "reasonable cause" for his absence from the proceedings. (3) A…