United States Ninth Circuit

A petition for review of a denial of petitioner's motion to reopen to allow consideration of his application for adjustment of status is denied where the BIA properly interpreted the relevant language of the Child Status Protection Act (CSPA) in finding that petitioner did not qualify as a child under the CSPA, and thus could not show statutory eligibility for adjustment of status. (Amended opinion)

Appellate Information

• Argued 10/16/2006
• Decided 03/22/2007
• Published 03/22/2007

Judges

• Before ROBERT R. BEEZER, DIARMUID F. O'SCANNLAIN, and STEPHEN S. TROTT, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Stephen Shaiken, San Francisco, CA, for the petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Aviva Poczter and Robbin K. Blaya, United States Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for the respondent.