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Friday, May 20, 2011

Interlocutory appeal or venue motion does not excuse failure to appeal

Matter of Gvasalia, A097-610-584, 2011 WL 1570490 (BIA Apr. 4, 2011) (Cleveland)

The alien filed a motion for a televideo hearing to avoid travelling from Cincinnati to Cleveland.  The IJ denied the motion and he filed an interlocutory appeal.  When he failed to appear for the hearing, the IJ ordered him removed in absentia.  The BIA affirmed the denial of the motion to reopen because the interlocutory appeal did not excuse the failure to appeal.

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