ACOSTA

Interim Decision #2279 MATTER OF ACOSTA In Deportation Proceedings A-12698629 Decided by Board April 19, 1974 Respondent, a permanent resident alien, who departed to Mexico to sign a bond book during the pendency of his appeal from a criminal conviction there, and who upon reporting was taken into custody and imprisoned for approximately six months, made an entry within the meaning of section 101(a)(13) of the Immigration and Nationality Act upon which to predicate a ground of deportation when he returned from Mexico following his imprisonment, since his departure was occasioned by "legal…