Legal Opinion
Bbale v. Lynch
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided October 24, 2016No. 15-2372PPublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
The petitioner, Douglas Jimmy Bbale, seeks judicial review of a final decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA), which denied his motion to reopen removal proceedings. Discerning no abuse of the BIA’s broad discretion, we deny the petition.
I. BACKGROUND
The petitioner, a Ugandan national, was admitted to the United States as a visitor for a six-month period that expired on November 22, 2000. He overstayed, and almost nine years elapsed before the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) instituted removal proceedings against him.
The petitioner initially pursued an…
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