Adel Fares Estafanous Yacoub v. Immigration and Naturalization Service

Adel Fares Estafanous Yacoub appeals an order of the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) denying Yacoub asylum and withholding of deportation. See 8 U.S.C. §§ 1158(a), 1253(h) (1988). We affirm.

Yacoub, an Egyptian citizen, entered the United States on a nonimmigrant visitor’s visa authorizing Yacoub to remain until February 17, 1985. Because Yacoub did not leave the country when his visa expired, the INS began deportation proceedings against him. Yacoub admitted he was deportable as an alien who had overstayed his authorized time in the United States but applied for asylum because he feared…