Legal Opinion
Sherneth Marcia Raffington v. Immigration and Naturalization Service
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided August 26, 2003No. 02-1773PublishedCited by 35 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LOKEN, Chief Judge.
In September 2001, the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) denied Sherneth Raffington’s application for suspension of deportation, concluding that she lacked the required seven years of continuous physical presence in the United States. Raff-ington did not appeal that decision. Instead, she moved to reopen the deportation proceedings to permit her to apply for asylum based on new evidence that she is a member of a social group that is persecuted in Jamaica. The BIA summarily denied the motion on the ground that Raff-ington failed to present a prima facie case that she will…
2Cases cited10 opinions
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- Immigration & Naturalization Service v. AbuduSupreme Court of the United States · 1988
- Stone v. Immigration & Naturalization ServiceSupreme Court of the United States · 1995
- Bernard Lukwago A/K/A Melvin Haft v. John Ashcroft, Attorney General of the United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 2003
- Azar Safaie v. Immigration and Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1994
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