Howard Nee Hao Wong v. Immigration and Naturalization Service

MERRILL, Circuit Judge:

Petitioner, an alien, seeks review of a final order of the Board of Immigration Appeals dismissing petitioner’s appeal from a decision of an immigration judge, finding him deportable. The major question presented is whether due process requires that deportation proceedings must be postponed until the alien is competent to participate intelligently in the proceedings. We conclude that it does not; that the proceedings conducted in this case were consistent with due process. We therefore affirm the decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals.

Petitioner is an unmarried…