United States Ninth Circuit

The voluntary departure period, granted as a privilege to a removable alien under 8 U.S.C. section 1229c, begins when the Board of Immigration Appeals enters its order granting voluntary departure.

Appellate Information

• Argued 11/06/2002
• Decided 03/13/2003
• Published 03/13/2003

Judges

• Before: CANBY, GOULD, and BERZON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Kevin A. Bove, Escondido, CA, for petitioner Manuel Zazueta-Carrillo.


• For Appellees:
  
• Robert D. McCallum, Jr., Assistant Atty. Gen., Civil Division, Washington, DC, David V. Bernal, Asst. Dir., Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, Barry J. Pettinato, Trial Attorney, Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, Michele Y.F. Sarko, Attorney (argued), Office of Immigration Litigation, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, DC, for respondent John D. Ashcroft.