Legal Opinion
Cheng Chen v. Gonzales
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 23, 2007No. 06-3189PublishedCited by 49 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
The question presented by this petition to review a decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals is whether an alien may file an application for asylum, on the basis of a change in his personal circumstances, after he has been ordered removed (deported) and after the 90-day deadline for filing a motion to reopen a removal proceeding has expired. The Board ruled that he cannot.
In 2001 the petitioner, a Chinese citizen, was ordered deported to China. He did not seek judicial review of the order, but neither did he leave the United States. Instead he married an American and…
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