United States Fifth Circuit

The Board of Immigration Appeals properly upheld an immigration judge's ruling that appellant abandoned her lawful permanent resident status and is therefore an inadmissible alien subject to exclusion and deportation, based on trips to Pakistan and time spent there.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/20/2003
• Published 06/23/2003

Judges

• KAZEN, Chief Judge:, Before JONES and BENAVIDES, Circuit Judges, and KAZEN, Chief District Judge.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Brian K. Bates (argued), Quan, Burdette & Perez, Houston, TX, for Petitioners.


• For Appellees:
  
• Barry Joseph Pettinato (argued), U.S. Dept. of Justice, Dept. of Homeland Sec., John Ashcroft, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Civil Div.-Appellate Staff, David V. Bernal, Thomas Ward Hussey, Director, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Civil Div. Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, Hipolito Acosta, U.S. I.N.S., Houston, TX, Caryl G. Thompson, U.S. I.N.S., Attn:  Joe A. Aguilar, New Orleans, LA, for Respondent.