United States Seventh Circuit

Petition for review of a decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals affirming IJ's denial of Albanian petitioners' applications for asylum, withholding of removal and protection under the CAT is granted and BIA's decision vacated and remanded for reconsideration of the petitioners' motion to file their brief out-of-time as the Board was required to consider relevant factors that support petitioners' claim that they never received notice of their asylum proceedings, along with any others of which it might be aware, and to explain its decision in light of them.

Appellate Information

• Argued 01/28/2009
• Decided 08/31/2009
• Published 08/31/2009

Judges

• PER CURIAM., Before BAUER, RIPPLE and TINDER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Rekha Sharma-Crawford, W. Michael Sharma-Crawford (argued), Overland Park, KS, for Petitioners.


• For Appellees:
  
• Remi Adalemo (argued), Department of Justice, Civil Div., Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, for Respondent.