FONG

Interim Decision #2280 MATTER OF FONG In Deportation Proceedings A-14214045 Decided by Board April 23, 1974 Notwithstanding the contrary position of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (within jurisdiction of which instant case arose) the immi- gration judge is bound by the decision of the Attorney General in Matter of Lee,13 I. & N. Dec.214 (1969), and must find respondent, an alien who entered the United States in 1955 without inspection upon a false claim to citizenship, ineligible for the benefits of section 241(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, as amended,…