Legal Opinion
Edin Cekic and Samka Cekic v. Immigration and Naturalization Service
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided January 18, 2006No. Docket 03-4270(L), 03-4271(CON)PublishedCited by 206 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
McLAUGHLIN, Circuit Judge.
Edin and Samka Cekic, and their daughter, Ines, petition for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (the “BIA”) affir-mance of a denial of their motion to reopen their removal proceedings. Because we find that the BIA did not abuse its discretion in finding that the Cekics failed to act with reasonable diligence, we deny the petition for review.
BACKGROUND
The Cekics are citizens and nationals of Bosnia, a republic of the former country of Yugoslavia. They are Moslem. Following the ascendency of Slobodan Milosevic to the office of President of Serbia in 1989, the…
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