SEREN

Interim Decision #2474 MATTER OF SEREN In Deportation Proceedings A-18125976 Decided by Board February 25, 1976 (1) Prior to the commencement of deportation proceedings, the district director may determine where the hearing should be held. Once jurisdiction has lodged with the immigration judge, the district director lacks the power to change, or deny a request to change, the place of hearing. Thus, the district director's letter of January 22, 1976, denying respondent's request for a change of venue subsequent to the commencement of the deportat on hearing, was of no effect. (2) Since the…