United States Tenth Circuit

The BIA's dismissal of an appeal from an IJ's order of removal and its denial of a motion to reopen are affirmed where: 1) signing an oath of allegiance during a naturalization examination is insufficient to confer citizenship; 2) removal proceedings are not a proper forum to attack either the denial of an application for naturalization or a state-court conviction; 3) there was no record support for a claim of falsification; 4) a challenge to a detainer or detention during removal proceedings need not be considered; and 5) the court lacked jurisdiction over a challenge to a determination that appellant abandoned an asylum claim.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/31/2006
• Published 08/31/2006

Judges

• HARTZ, Circuit Judge., Before HARTZ, EBEL, and TYMKOVICH, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Submitted on the briefs:   Benad S. Abiodun, pro se.


• For Appellees:
  
• Patricia M. Corrales-Talleda, Attorney, and Mark C. Walters, Assistant Director, Office of Immigration Litigation/Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Los Angeles, CA, for Respondent.