Bahram Anssari-Gharachedaghy v. Immigration and Naturalization Service

OPINION

DAUGHTREY, Circuit Judge.

This appeal arises from petitions filed with the INS by Bahrain Anssari-Ghara-chedaghy and his family, seeking political asylum. An immigration judge denied the petitions, and Anssari-Gharachedaghy appealed this decision to the Board of Immigration Appeals. The Board dismissed the appeal as untimely, and Anssari-Gharache-daghy now petitions this court for review of both the order of the immigration judge and the Board’s dismissal of his appeal from that order. Because we cannot say that the Board abused its discretion in adhering to its own rules of procedure…