Legal Opinion
Hing Chuen Wu v. Holder
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided June 11, 2009No. 08-60073PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PRADO, Circuit Judge:
The sole question in this petition for review of a Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) decision is whether the Immigration Judge (“IJ”) abused his discretion by denying Petitioner Hing Chuen Wu’s (‘Wu”) motion for a third continuance pending the adjudication of his wife’s 1-130 visa petition. 1 Wu relies primarily on Matter of Garcia, 16 I. & N. Dec. 653 (BIA 1978), to argue that the IJ erred in denying him a continuance. In Garcia, the BIA determined that “discretion should, as a general rule, be favorably exercised where a prima facie approvable visa petition and…
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