Tim Lok v. Immigration and Naturalization Service

LUMBARD, Circuit Judge:

Tim Lok has lived in this country for 23 years, eleven of them under deportation orders. He petitions for a third time for review of a decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals, which found for a third time that he had not accumulated seven continuous years of “lawful unrelinquished domicile” entitling him to relief from deportation under § 212(c) of the Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1952, 8 U.S.C. § 1182(c) (1976). We deny his petition.

Born in China in 1937, 1 Lok came to the United States as a seaman on July 27,1959. As a seaman, he had 29 days to enjoy the…