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Alexandru Vlaicu; Sabina Vlaicu; Daniel Vlaicu; Danielavlaicu, Petitioners, v. United States Immigration and Naturalization Service, Respondent, 998 F.2d 758 (9th Cir. 1993) :: Justia
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Alexandru Vlaicu; Sabina Vlaicu; Daniel Vlaicu; Danielavlaicu, Petitioners, v. United States Immigration and Naturalization Service, Respondent, 998 F.2d 758 (9th Cir. 1993)
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit - 998 F.2d 758 (9th Cir. 1993)
Submitted June 8, 1993*.Decided July 19, 1993
The only issue before us is whether the BIA properly dismissed the petitioners' appeal as untimely. The decision of the Immigration Judge was served by mailing to the parties on April 30, 1992. One applicable regulation provides that " [a]n appeal shall be taken within 10 days after the mailing of a written decision.... When service of the decision is made by mail, ... 3 days shall be added to the period prescribed for the taking of an appeal." 8 C.F.R. § 242.21(a). Another specifies that " [t]he notice of appeal of the decision shall be filed with the Office of Immigration Judge ... within ten (10) calendar days after service of the decision. Time will be 13 days if mailed." 8 C.F.R. § 3.38.
Nor would petitioners have been quickly disabused of their misimpression if they had consulted the regulations, because the regulations do not speak with one voice. As the INS has argued, § 3.38(b) unequivocally requires the notice of appeal to be filed within 13 days "with the Office of Immigration Judge." 8 C.F.R. § 3.38(b). But § 3.3, entitled "Notice of appeal" provides: "An appeal shall be taken by filing Notice of Appeal Form 290A in triplicate with the Service office or Office of the Immigration Judge having administrative jurisdiction over the case, within the time specified in the governing sections of this chapter." 8 C.F.R. § 3.3(a) (emphasis added). Thus, under the plain language of § 3.3(a) contained in the subpart of the INS's regulations entitled "Board of Immigration Appeals," the petitioners' notice of appeal was timely filed when submitted to the INS on May 13, 1992. See 8 C.F.R. § 3.3(a); see also INS v. Cardoza-Fonseca, 480 U.S. 421, 449, 107 S. Ct. 1207, 1222, 94 L. Ed. 2d 434 (1987) ("longstanding principle of construing any lingering ambiguities in deportation statutes in favor of the alien").
The panel unanimously finds this case suitable for decision without oral argument. Fed. R. App. P. 34(a), 9th Cir.R. 34-4