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GAO v. GONZALES

No. 05-3215.

464 F.3d 728 (2006)

Yuan GAO, Petitioner, v. Alberto R. GONZALES, Attorney General of the United States, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided September 25, 2006.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Yongbing Zhang, Wang, Leonard & Condon, Chicago, IL, for Petitioner.

Karen Lundgren, Department of Homeland Security, Virginia M. Lum, Chicago, IL, Department of Justice Civil Division, Immigration Litigation, Washington, D.C., for Respondent.

Before POSNER, EASTERBROOK, and SYKES, Circuit Judges.

EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.

At the suggestion of an immigration judge, Yuan Gao withdrew his application for asylum in exchange for an opportunity to depart voluntarily. He did not use this opportunity, however. Regretting his decision to abandon the request for asylum (a step that he attributes to bad legal advice), he asked the immigration judge to reopen. The IJ declined, the Board of Immigration Appeals dismissed the appeal, and the alien filed a petition for...

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