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SHEIKH v. HOLDER

No. 11-2237.

696 F.3d 147 (2012)

Muhammad Saleem SHEIKH, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., United States Attorney General, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided October 10, 2012.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kevin R. Murphy on brief for petitioner.

Tony West , Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, with whom Cindy S. Ferrier , Assistant Director and Lindsay M. Murphy , Attorney, Office of Immigration Litigation, on brief for respondent.

Before HOWARD, RIPPLE and LIPEZ, Circuit Judges.

HOWARD, Circuit Judge.

Muhammad Saleem Sheikh, a native and citizen of Pakistan, seeks review of a final order of removal issued by the Board of Immigration Appeals ("BIA"). The order came after the BIA dismissed Sheikh's appeal of an immigration judge's ("IJ") denial of a continuance in his removal proceedings.1 We deny the petition.

I. Background

Sheikh entered the United States in April 2001 on a non-immigrant visitor...

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