United States First Circuit

Where petitioner cannot prove that the INS district director had a policy of extending departure deadlines upon oral request until the request was denied in writing, nor even that district director granted an oral request prior to the effective departure date, petitioner may not avoid the five year ban on a change in immigration status.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/21/2000
• Published 12/21/2000

Judges

• LYNCH, Circuit Judge., Before TORRUELLA, Chief Judge, LYNCH, Circuit Judge, and GARCIA-GREGORY, District Judge.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• José Guillermo Gonzalez for petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Ann Carroll Varnon, with whom David W. Ogden, Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, and Margaret J. Perry, Senior Litigation Counsel, were on brief for respondent.