UNPUBLISHED
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT
No. 97-1672
GHOLAMREZA ASLIYALFANI,
Petitioner,
versus
U.S. IMMIGRATION & NATURALIZATION SERVICE,
Respondent.
AMERICAN IMMIGRATION LAWYERS ASSOCIATION;
NATIONAL IMMIGRATION PROJECT OF THE NATIONAL
LAWYERS GUILD; LAWYERS’ COMMITTEE FOR CIVIL
RIGHTS UNDER LAW OF TEXAS, Immigrant and
Refugee Rights Project,
Amici Curiae.
On Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration
Appeals. (A28-290-015)
Submitted: January 31, 2000 Decided: March 7, 2000
Before NIEMEYER, LUTTIG, and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.
Affirmed by unpublished per curiam opinion.
Roberta Freedman, PEDERSON & FREEDMAN, Washington, D.C., for Peti-
tioner. David W. Ogden, Acting Assistant Attorney General, Civil
Division, David V. Bernal, Assistant Director, M. Jocelyn Lopez
Wright, Office of Immigration Litigation, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT
OF JUSTICE, Washington, D.C., for Respondent. Mary Kenney, Barbara
Hines, LAWYERS’ COMMITTEE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS UNDER LAW OF TEXAS,
San Antonio, Texas; Claudia Slovinsky, LAW OFFICE OF CLAUDIA
SLOVINSKY, New York, New York, for Amici Curiae.
Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.
See Local Rule 36(c).
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PER CURIAM:
Gholamreza Asliyalfani, a native and citizen of Iran, seeks
review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’s (Board) decision to
deny his motion to reopen deportation proceedings. Asliyalfani
sought to reopen the proceedings for the purpose of applying for
suspension of deportation. However, Asliyalfani did not meet the
continuous presence requirement for suspension of deportation
because he failed to accrue seven years of continuous physical
presence prior to the initiation of deportation proceedings against
him. See Appiah v. INS, No. 97-1705, 2000 WL 43717 (4th Cir. Jan.
20, 2000). Therefore, we deny Asliyalfani’s petition for review
and affirm the decision of the Board. We dispense with oral argu-
ment because the facts and legal contentions are adequately pre-
sented in the materials before the court and argument would not aid
the decisional process.
AFFIRMED
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