Legal Opinion
Rosmery Andia Amilcar E. Torrez v. John Ashcroft, Attorney General
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided March 2, 2004No. 02-70648PublishedCited by 162 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
2Per curiam
Petitioners Rosmery Andia and her son, Amilcar Torrez, were deported in absentia because they did not appear at their deportation hearing. They filed a motion to reopen, maintaining that they had not received notice of the hearing. The Immigration Judge (IJ) denied the motion on the ground that Andia and Torrez did not file their motion to reopen until seven months after they discovered the deportation order, and the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) approved the IJ’s decision as an appropriate exercise of discretion. Because the statute and regulations governing the timing of this…
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