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· 7/9/2008

Beltre-Veloz v. Mukasey

Citations

  • 533 F.3d 7
  • 2008 U.S. App. LEXIS 14531
  • 2008 WL 2673213

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that alien’s failure to exercise due diligence in not inquiring into immigration status for eight years despite knowing that removal proceedings had commenced precluded equitable tolling of deadline for filing motion to reopen
  • reasoning that alien’s failure to exercise due diligence in not inquiring about immigration status for eight years despite knowing that removal proceedings had commenced precluded equitable tolling
  • holding that the petitioner’s motion to reopen had a “fatal flaw” in that it “makes no men- tion of the nature, scope, or substance of the petitioner’s arrangement with [his lawyer], nor does it indicate what communications the petitioner had with the attorney over the years”
  • \It cannot be gainsaid that due diligence is a sine qua non for equitable tolling.\
  • \It cannot be gainsaid that due diligence is a sine qua non for equitable tolling.\

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Judges: Torruella, Selya, Howard

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