Folorunso Adeyinka Afolayan, Grace Afolayan v. Immigration and Naturalization Service

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that published BIA decisions are “binding precedent upon all the administrative immigration proceedings of the INS”
• deferring to Mendoza-Sandino on the grounds that the BIA’s decision is reasonable and consistent with the statute’s language and legislative purpose
• stating that the plain and unambiguous language of NACARA dictates that the \stop-time rule applies to deportation proceedings where the INS issued a show cause order prior to the Act's effective date\
• stating this standard for giving no deference to an agency interpretation of a statute the agency is charged with administering
• in reviewing decisions of the Board, we lack jurisdiction to review claims that were not presented to the Board in the first instance
• continuous-physical-presence clock stops and does not start anew after service of show cause order

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).