Legal Opinion
Bin Zhao v. Alberto R. Gonzales, Attorney General of the United States
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 8, 2006No. 05-2398PublishedCited by 39 opinions
1Per curiam
Chinese citizen Bin Zhao wants to reopen his application for asylum, which was based on a fear that he will be persecuted by Chinese police for attending a Falun Gong rally in 1999. Because he waited two years after the BIA denied his claim to file his motion to reopen, the BIA denied it as untimely. Even though his motion was filed past the deadline, Zhao maintains that he satisfied a statutory exception to that deadline by presenting evidence of changed circumstances in China — specifically, an affidavit by his girlfriend (he says wife) stating that Zhao’s parents in China “recently” said…
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