United States Fifth Circuit

An alien does not begin to accrue a new seven-year period of continuous presence in the United States after receiving notice that deportation proceedings have commenced under the stop-time rule of 8 USC 1229b(d)(1).

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/19/2001
• Published 01/19/2001

Judges

• WIENER, Circuit Judge:, Before HIGGINBOTHAM, WIENER, and DENNIS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Thomas Perrill Adams (argued), Law Office of Thomas P. Adams, New Orleans, LA, for Petitioners.


• For Appellees:
  
• Marshall Tamor Golding (argued), Robert L. Bombaugh, Director, Richard M. Evans, Jeffrey Jay Bernstein, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Div., Janet Reno, Office of the U.S. Atty. Gen., Civil Div., Appellate Staff, Washington, DC, Lynne Underdown, I.N.S., District Directors Office, Attn:  Joe A. Aguilar, New Orleans, LA, for Respondent.