Antonia Tavares Dodig v. Immigration and Naturalization Service

KLEINFELD, Circuit Judge:

Petitioner conceded deportability, asked for a six month delay, and got it. She appealed to the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA), arguing that the immigration judge should have granted her husband’s unadjudi-cated petition to obtain immediate relative preference for her. Her husband had died before the petition was adjudicated. The BIA held that the immigration judge lacked jurisdiction to grant the petition. We affirm.

Petitioner entered the United States and shortly thereafter married an American citizen. Her husband petitioned for preference for her as an…