United States Second Circuit

Petition for review of a BIA decision denying petitioner's motion to reopen based on ineffective assistance of counsel is denied where petitioner's decision to withdraw his application for asylum and withholding of removal and to accept a grant of voluntary departure was a reasonable strategic decision which undermines claims of counsel's ineffective assistance.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/27/2008
• Published 03/27/2008

Judges

• PER CURIAM:, Before: CARDAMONE, B.D. PARKER, and HALL, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Frederick P.S. Whang, Seattle, WA, for Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• J. Max Weintraub, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, U.S. Department of Justice (Peter D. Keisler, Assistant Attorney General, Carol Federighi, Senior Litigation Counsel, on the brief), Washington, D.C., for Respondent.