Legal Opinion
Sembiring v. Gonzales
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided August 24, 2007No. 04-74076PublishedCited by 61 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
W. FLETCHER, Circuit Judge:
Petitioner Rehsempata Sembiring applied for asylum in May 2003. Now, more than four years later, we evaluate a petition for review in which she seeks a hearing on that application. Sembiring appeared in the Immigration Court on August 5, 2003, the date originally scheduled for her hearing, only to find that she had been ordered removed in absentia six days earlier. The Immigration and Naturalization Service (now the Department of Homeland Security) contends that it sent her by regular mail a notice that her hearing had been rescheduled to the earlier date. Sembiring…
2Cases cited21 opinions
- BURBANOBoard of Immigration Appeals · 1994
- Almaz Sayoum Abebe Sisay Mengistu v. Alberto R. Gonzales, Attorney GeneralCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2005
- Gourgen Movsisian v. John Ashcroft, Attorney GeneralCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2005
- Ana Maria Lanza v. John Ashcroft, Attorney GeneralCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2004
- Emmanuel Senyo Agyeman v. Immigration & Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2002
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3Cited by61 opinions
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- Santana Gonzalez v. Attorney General of the United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 2007
- Silva-Carvalho Lopes v. MukaseyCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2008
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