Manouchehr Naderpour v. Immigration and Naturalization Service

ROSS, Senior Circuit Judge.

Petitioner Manouchehr Naderpour, an Iranian native, appeals from the Board of Immigration decision concluding that his appeal from an immigration judge’s denial of his petition for asylum was untimely. We grant the petition for review and reverse.

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Petitioner fled Iran in 1985 and eventually entered the United States on a student visa. In November 1989, deportation proceedings were instituted against him after he missed a semester of school, thereby invalidating his student visa. Petitioner applied to the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) for asylum,…