El-Gharabli v. Immigration & Naturalization Service

Petitioner, Mohammed El-Gharabli, asks us to review an immigration judge’s decision not to reopen deportation proceedings. The Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) affirmed the judge’s decision. We deny the petition for review.

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El-Gharabli entered the United States in 1981 on a student visa.1 He left college in late 1982, and in July 1983 the Immigration and Naturalization Service (“INS”) ordered petitioner to show cause why he should not be deported for violating the conditions under which he was admitted to this country.

Five weeks later El-Gharabli married an American citizen. Thereafter…