Legal Opinion
PATEL
Board of Immigration Appeals
Decided July 1, 1978No. ID 2670PublishedCited by 44 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Interim Decision #2670 MATTER OF PATEL In Deportation Proceedings A-21093734 A-20915499 Decided by Board September 12, 1978 (1) A mere showing of the minimum statutory period of continuous physical presence required for relief under section 244(a)(1) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C. 1254(a)(1), does not ordinarily, without more, establish the other statutory prerequisites sufficiently to warrant reopening for a plenary hearing on that relief. Conclusory assertions of hardship will not suffice to have proceedings reopened. (2) Where the Board remands a ease to an immigration…
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