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9-30-2004

Begum v. Atty Gen USA
Precedential or Non-Precedential: Non-Precedential

Docket No. 03-2317




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                       UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                            FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT


                                       No. 03-2317


                                   NANTHI BEGUM,
                                            Petitioner

                                            v.

                          JOHN ASHCROFT, Attorney General
                                of the United States
                                             Respondent


                      On Petition for Review of a Final Order of the
                              Board of Immigration Appeals
                                    (No. A73-162-793)


                       Submitted Under Third Circuit LAR 34.1(a)
                                     July 1, 2004

            Before: AMBRO, ALDISERT and STAPLETON, Circuit Judges


                           ORDER AMENDING OPINION

       The petition for panel rehearing filed by Respondent in the above entitled case

having been submitted to the judges who participated in the decision of this Court, the

petition is granted for the limited purpose of vacating the Court’s reinstatement of

Petitioner’s expired period for voluntary departure. As such, the Court’s not precedential

opinion, dated July 22, 2004, is hereby amended as follows:

       On page 3, footnote 2, replace the sentence that reads: “Though the thirty-day

voluntary departure period had long since lapsed before she sought a stay, we nonetheless
grant this request.” with the following: “In light of our decision in Reynoso-Lopez v.

Ashcroft, 

, 280 (3d Cir. 2004), we deny this request (“[B]ecause Congress

has not provided statutory authority for appellate courts to reinstate or extend the

voluntary departure period prescribed by an IJ or the BIA, this Court lacks jurisdiction to

reinstate [petitioner’s] voluntary departure period.”).”




                                           By the Court,



                                           /s/ Thomas L. Ambro, Circuit Judge

Dated: September 30, 2004




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