United States Third Circuit

A petition for review of a decision denying petitioner suspension of deportation under the statute in effect at the time he applied for such relief is denied where: 1) 8 U.S.C. section 1229b(d)(1)(B) applies to petitioner's request for suspension of deportation under 8 U.S.C. section 1254(a)(1); 2) the BIA's interpretation of the language of section 1229b(d) was reasonable; 3) petitioner was not eligible for suspension of deportation as he did not achieve the required seven years of continuous physical presence immediately preceding the date of his application.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/08/2007
• Decided 06/26/2007
• Published 06/26/2007

Judges

• Before: RENDELL and JORDAN, Circuit Judges and VANASKIE , District Judge.

Court

• United States Third Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Roger R. Laguna, Jr., [Argued], Laguna, Reyes & Maloney, Harrisburg, PA, Counsel for Petitioner., Richard M. Evans, Emily A. Radford, David E. Dauenheimer, Blair T. O'Connor, Gjon Juncaj, [Argued], United States Department of Justice, Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC.