United States Ninth Circuit

Petitioner's petition for adjustment of his visa status is granted where his application was improperly rejected as untimely for the sole reason that his lawyer's accompanying check for the proper amount of the filing fee was inadvertently unsigned.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/04/2009
• Decided 07/15/2009
• Published 07/15/2009

Judges

• GRABER, Circuit Judge:, Before:  JOHN T. NOONAN, DIARMUID F. O'SCANNLAIN, and SUSAN P. GRABER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Russell L. Marshak, Popkin, Shamir & Golan, Los Angeles, CA, for the petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Lauren Fascett and Song E. Park, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for the respondent.