Melquiades T. Lagandaon v. John Ashcroft, Attorney General

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• “We have also indicated that nonprecedential BIA deci- sions might receive less deference than those designated as preceden- tial.”
• not- ing that a twenty-day absence did not interrupt petitioner’s period of continuous physical presence
• “As long as the BIA intended to issue an interpretation of a statute it enforces, its interpretation of ambiguities in that statute is generally accorded deference under [Chevron].” (internal quotation marks omitted)

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