LAM

Interim Decision #2136 MATTER OF LAM In Deportation Proceedings A-15639821 Decided by Board March 23, 1972 Apart from an alien's failure to establish prima facie the extreme hardship required to qualify for suspension of deportation, where, as in the instant case, he managed to stave off deportation and accrue the minimum statutory period of physical presence only by resort to dilatory procedures (including a petition for review denied for 'eel( of prosecution), in the absence of compelling circumstances to counterbalance such an adverse factor denial of his motion to reopen to apply for…