Legal Opinion
Xiao He Chen v. Lynch
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided June 9, 2016No. 15-1918PPublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
The sole question in this immigration case is whether the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) abused its discretion in declining to reopen the petitioners’ removal proceedings. We answer that question in the negative and deny the petition for judicial review.
The historical facts and travel of the case are susceptible to succinct summari-zation. The petitioners (Xiao He Chen and her husband, Ling Yu Luo) are Chinese nationals. Early in 2000, Chen entered the United States illegally. Her husband, Luo, followed on October 17, 2002, entering the country by means of a visitor’s…
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