Immigration – Removal Proceedings

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7^th Circuit Court of Appeals

Case Name: Manjit Singh Sembhi v. Jefferson B. Sessions III

Case No.: 17-2746

Officials: EASTERBROOK and ROVNER, Circuit Judges, and GRIESBACH, District Judge.

Focus: Immigration – Removal Proceedings

When Manjit Singh Sembhi failed to appear for an October 2001 hearing in his removal proceeding, the immigration judge ordered him removed to his home country of India. More than 10 years later, Sembhi filed a motion to reopen and rescind the in absentia removal order, which the immigration judge denied. Sembhi then sought relief, unsuccessfully, from the Board of Immigration Appeals. After a total of five adverse decisions from the Board, Sembhi now faces the unenviable task of convincing us that the Board abused its discretion in denying his third motion to reconsider and fifth motion to reopen, with the latter being presumptively barred in both number and time. Finding no error in the Board’s latest decision that would warrant a remand, we deny Sembhi’s petition for review.

Denied

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