United States Ninth Circuit

In a petition for review of the BIA's order denying petitioner's asylum application, the petition is denied where petitioner did not file an asylum application in English within the one year deadline and no "extraordinary circumstances" prevented him from filing on time.

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/01/2009
• Decided 12/01/2009
• Published 12/01/2009

Judges

• PER CURIAM:, Before: ALEX KOZINSKI, Chief Judge, PROCTER HUG, JR. and CARLOS T. BEA, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Lisa M. Calero, Esquire, Robert L. Lewis, Esquire, Law Office of Robert L. Lewis, Oakland, CA, Charles E. Nichol, Esq., Law Offices of Charles E. Nichol, San Francisco, CA, for the petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Antoinette Barksdale, Senior Litigating Attorney, U.S. Department of Justice Civil Division-Appellate, Washington, DC, Ronald E. LeFevre, Office of the District Counsel, Department of Homeland Security, San Francisco, CA, Mark Lenard Gross, Esquire, Deputy Chief Counsel, DOJ-U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division/Appellate Section, Washington, DC, for the respondent.