United States Second Circuit

Denial of request for continuance of removal proceedings, so that petitioner's wife, a U.S. citizen, could have an I-130 visa petition adjudicated, is upheld over claims that the IJ abused his discretion and violated petitioner's right to due process.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/21/2006
• Published 04/21/2006

Judges

• JOSÉ A. CABRANES, Circuit Judge., Before:  CABRANES and SOTOMAYOR, Circuit Judges, and GLEESON, District Judge.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Gerald P. Seipp, Fort Myers, FL, for Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Patricia L. Buchanan, Assistant United States Attorney (Michael J. Garcia, United States Attorney, Sara L. Shudofsky, Assistant United States Attorney, on the brief), United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, New York, NY, for Respondent.