United States Ninth Circuit

Petition for review of a ruling pretermitting Chinese native's application for withholding of removal and relief under the Convention Against Torture (CAT) is granted where the IJ abused his discretion in refusing to grant petitioner's motion for a continuance so that she could resubmit fingerprints for a background security check.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/08/2008
• Decided 08/19/2008
• Published 08/19/2008

Judges

• PREGERSON, Circuit Judge:, Before: HARRY PREGERSON, GLENN L. ARCHER, JR., and KIM McLANE WARDLAW, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• William Kiang, Law Offices of Kiang & Kiang, San Gabriel, CA, for the petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Peter D. Keisler, Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division;  Richard M. Evans, Assistant Director;  Allen W. Hausman, Senior Litigation Counsel, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, Washington, DC, for the respondent.