United States Fourth Circuit

Under the pre-Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act rules, an alien who failed to appeal a deportation order or a denial of a motion to reopen deportation proceedings has failed to exhaust her administrative remedies.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/19/2001
• Published 12/19/2001

Judges

• Before WILKINSON, Chief Judge, and WIDENER and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Michele Mary Rocawich, Susman & Associates, Chicago, IL, for Appellant. Robbin Kinmonth Blaya, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Appellee. ON BRIEF:  Barbara Ann Susman, Carol Lynn Pelton, Jonathan Peter Gundlach, Susman & Associates, Chicago, IL, for Appellant.  Stuart E. Schiffer, Acting Assistant Attorney General, Linda S. Wendtland, Assistant Director, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Appellee.