WIJERATNE v. I.N.S.

No. 90-2482.

961 F.2d 1344 (1992)

Allen M. WIJERATNE, formerly known as Allen M. Lowe, Petitioner, v. IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided April 24, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Patrick W. Lee, J. Michael Klise (argued), M. Claire Brier, Crowell & Moring, Washington, D.C., Eileen Doran, Barbara S. Gasperetti, Notre Dame Law School, Notre Dame, Ind., for petitioner.

Ira H. Raphaelson, Asst. U.S. Atty., Crim. Div., Chicago, Ill., Alison R. Drucker, David J. Kline, David M. McConnell (argued), Dept. of Justice, Office of Immigration Litigation, Richard L. Thornburg, U.S. Atty. Gen., Washington, D.C., Michael L. Harper, I.N.S., Chicago, Ill., for respondent.

Before BAUER, Chief Judge, POSNER and MANION, Circuit Judges.


MANION, Circuit Judge.

Petitioner Allen Margaret Wijeratne seeks review of a final decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals ("the BIA") denying her motion to reopen deportation proceedings and ordering her deported to Sri Lanka. For the reasons set forth in this opinion, we deny the petition for review and affirm the decision of the BIA.

I.

Allen Margaret Wijeratne is a native and citizen of Sri Lanka. In March, 1987, she illegally entered the...

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