Opinion ID: 195764
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: issues

Text: 11 Petitioner contends that several errors infected the process leading to his deportation. First, he asseverates that the INS's failure punctually to file its brief deprived the BIA of jurisdiction to hear the initial appeal, and, consequently, that the IJ's decision upholding petitioner's entitlement to a section 212(c) waiver became final agency action (or, put another way, that the BIA's reversal of the IJ's ruling had no force or effect because the BIA's jurisdiction had been pretermitted). Second, petitioner asseverates that, in violation of applicable statutory and administrative rules, the BIA did not properly notify his counsel of its September 30 decision and, therefore, deported petitioner without requisite notice. See, e.g., 8 C.F.R. Sec. 243.3(b) (1994) (providing that a deportation order shall be executed no sooner than 72 hours after service of the decision). 12 We are powerless to reach the merits of these asseverations, however, for petitioner's deportation deprives this court of subject matter jurisdiction over the request for judicial review.