DODIG v. I.N.S.

No. 92-70384.

9 F.3d 1418 (1993)

Antonia Tavares DODIG, Petitioner, v. IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided November 22, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank D. Winston, San Francisco, for petitioner.

Stewart Deutsch, Office of Immigration Litigation, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, DC, for respondent.

Before: ALARCON, LEAVY and KLEINFELD, Circuit Judges.


KLEINFELD, Circuit Judge:

Petitioner conceded deportability, asked for a six month delay, and got it. She appealed to the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA), arguing that the immigration judge should have granted her husband's unadjudicated petition to obtain immediate relative preference for her. Her husband had died before the petition was adjudicated. The BIA held that the immigration judge lacked jurisdiction to grant the petition. We affirm.

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