Legal Opinion
Felicia Zeah v. Loretta E. Lynch
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided July 8, 2016No. 15-2466PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BEAM, Circuit Judge.
Felicia Zeah petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (BIA) denial of her motion to reopen her removal proceedings to apply for asylum, alleging that the BIA committed several legal errors and violated her due process rights. For the reasons discussed below, we deny the petition.
I. BACKGROUND
Zeah is a native and citizen of Nigeria. She first entered the United States as a nonimmigrant visitor in 1985. Zeah married James Wells in a civil ceremony in 1989, who then filed a Petition for Alien Relative (Form 1-130) on her behalf. However, the United States…
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