Legal Opinion
Abida Pervaiz v. Alberto R. Gonzales
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided April 18, 2005No. 04-2958PublishedCited by 67 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
Abida Pervaiz, a Pakistani, came to the United States in 1991 on a tourist visa, overstayed, and eventually applied for asylum or alternatively for withholding of removal. On January 31, 2002, the immigration service informed her lawyer that the hearing on Pervaiz’s claim of asylum would be held on January 24, 2003, at 1 p.m. On May 15, 2002, the service sent the lawyer a letter stating that the time of the hearing had been changed from 1 p.m. to 9 a.m. January 24, 2003, arrived, and Pervaiz and her lawyer showed up for the hearing — at 1 p.m. — only to be told that…
2Cases cited26 opinions
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