Jin Bo Zhao v. Immigration and Naturalization Service

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the BIA did not err in denying a motion to reopen as untimely where the “motion to reopen offered no explanation whatsoever, much less one the BIA was bound to accept, for its late filing”
• finding that BIA erred in denying diligent petitioner’s motion to reopen as number- and time- barred
• equitably tolling numeric and time limits because of ineffective assistance of counsel during limitations period
• equitably tolling numeric and time limits because of ineffective assistance of counsel during limitations period
• BIA erred when it refused to equitably toll the number bar for a second motion to reopen when the first motion was denied because of ineffective assistance of counsel
• declining to hold petitioner responsib le for untim eliness of the first m otion to reo pen where “nothing in the reco rd su ggests [he] kne w or reasona bly shou ld have know n that his [second] coun sel, who took [h is] fees . . . did not m eet the BIA’s d ead line”

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