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• holding no exceptional circumstance beyond alien’s control where “he failed to appear at his hearing, not because of illness, a death in the family, or some similarly severe impediment, but because he took the word of [an immigration] consultant over that of the INS”
• no exceptional circumstances where the petitioner “chose to heed the consultant’s advice [not to appear] and disregard the written notice provided by the [immigration court]”
• no exceptional circumstances where the petitioner “chose to heed the consultant’s advice [not to appear] and disregard the written notice provided by the [immigration court]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).