United States Ninth Circuit

A petition for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals' (BIA) dismissal of petitioner's motion to reopen removal proceedings is granted, where the BIA's interpretation of its place-of-filing rule, providing that a motion to reopen must be filed with the immigration judge when the BIA dismisses an appeal on jurisdictional grounds, is only a procedural claims-processing rule and not a jurisdictional bar to the BIA's authority to consider a motion to reopen.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/24/2013
• Published 12/24/2013

Judges

• CHRISTEN

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel