United States Fifth Circuit

Appeal of BIA denial of petitioner's motions to reopen his removal case is dismissed for lack of jurisdiction where petitioner's application for relief from removal under the Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central American Relief Act had been untimely filed, and petitioner had therefore failed to exhaust his administrative remedies.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/18/2008
• Published 09/18/2008

Judges

• PRADO, Circuit Judge:, Before KING, DeMOSS and PRADO, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Bruno Joseph Bembi, Law Office of Bruno J. Bembi, Hempstead, NY, for Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Aviva Lea Poczter, Emily Anne Radford, Asst. Dir., Thomas Ward Hussey, Dir., John Clifford Cunningham, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Civ. Div., OIL, Washington, DC, E.M. Trominski, Dist. Dir., U.S. INS, Harlingen, TX, for Respondent.