Pang Kiu Fung v. Immigration and Naturalization Service
| Citation | 663 F.2d 417 |
| Decision Date | 06 November 1981 |
| Docket Number | D,No. 215,215 |
| Parties | PANG KIU FUNG, Petitioner, v. IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE, Respondent. ocket 81-4096. |
| Court | United States Courts of Appeals. United States Court of Appeals (2nd Circuit) |
Jules E. Coven, New York City (Lebenkoff & Coven, Alberto J. Riefkohl, New York City, of counsel), for petitioner.
Thomas H. Belote, Sp. Asst. U. S. Atty., S.D.N.Y., New York City (John S. Martin, U. S. Atty., S.D.N.Y., New York City, of counsel), for respondent.
Before FEINBERG, Chief Judge, FRIENDLY, Circuit Judge, and PIERCE, District Judge. *
Pang Kiu Fung petitions for review of an order of the Board of Immigration Appeals ("Board") pursuant to § 106 of the Immigration and Nationality Act ("Act"), 8 U.S.C. § 1105a(a), and for review of a decision of the District Director of the Immigration and Naturalization Service. The order of the Board, entered in June 1981, denied Fung's motion to reopen his deportation proceedings to allow him to apply for reinstatement of the privilege of voluntary departure. This order is affirmed. The Director's decision, dated May 19, 1981, denied Fung's request to stay deportation. We decline to review this action for lack of jurisdiction.
Fung, a native Chinese, is a former crewman who jumped ship in 1968 and entered the country illegally. Apprehended in 1972, he appeared before Immigration Judge Edward P. Emanuel in a deportation proceeding conducted in January 1973. Judge Emanuel granted Fung, who conceded deportability, voluntary departure under § 244(e) of the Act, 8 U.S.C. § 1254(e), but provided that in the event Fung did not depart within three months, an order of deportation to Hong Kong or to the Republic of China would enter automatically. On four subsequent occasions, the Service extended Fung's time to leave voluntarily. These extensions expired in April 1974, however, at which time Judge Emanuel's alternative deportation order came into effect. In April 1974, Fung moved to stay deportation and to reopen the underlying proceedings in order to permit his application for refugee status under the Act. This relief was denied upon a finding that Fung had not established a prima facie case of political persecution either in Hong Kong or in the Republic of China. Following the rejection of his claims by the Board in February 1975, Fung disappeared and was not relocated for more than six years.
Despite outstanding orders for his surrender, Fung has remained in this country, evading detection until May 1981. Faced at that time with enforcement of the deportation order, Fung again moved to reopen his deportation proceeding to apply for voluntary departure, this time on the ground that his marriage in April 1981 to a United States citizen entitled him to preferential treatment. It is the Board's denial of this request that is under review here. Fung now maintains that his marriage and I-130 petition for an immediate relative visa, when coupled with the delays in processing experienced by the Immigration Service, changes the equities in his case, entitling him to reinstatement of his right to depart voluntarily under Matter of Yeung, 13 I&N Serv.Dec. 528 (BIA 1970). The government points out that the argument...
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