ROMERO v. BARR

No. 18-1850.

937 F.3d 282 (2019)

Jesus Humberto Zuniga ROMERO, Petitioner, v. William P. BARR, Attorney General, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided: August 29, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Benjamin Ross Winograd , IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE APPELLATE CENTER, LLC, Alexandria, Virginia, for Petitioner. Rebecca Hoffberg Phillips , UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, Washington, D.C., for Respondent. ON BRIEF: Georgeanna M. Gardner , GARDNER LAW, PLLC, Raleigh, North Carolina, for Petitioner. Joseph H. Hunt , Assistant Attorney General, John S. Hogan , Assistant Director, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, Washington, D.C., for Respondent.

Petition for review granted by published opinion. Judge Agee wrote the opinion, in which Judge Floyd and Judge Thacker joined.


After an immigration judge ("IJ") denied Jesus Zuniga Romero's request for administrative closure of his case—which would have removed it from the IJ's active docket pending the completion of a separate immigration proceeding—Romero petitioned the Board of Immigration Appeals ("BIA") for review. Although the BIA...

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