Filed: Jul. 30, 2014
Latest Update: Mar. 02, 2020
Summary: UNPUBLISHED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT No. 14-1184 EUGENE OPOKU-BAMFO, Petitioner, v. ERIC H. HOLDER, JR., Attorney General, Respondent. On Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration Appeals. Submitted: July 16, 2014 Decided: July 30, 2014 Before NIEMEYER, MOTZ, and DUNCAN, Circuit Judges. Petition denied by unpublished per curiam opinion. Randall L. Johnson, JOHNSON & ASSOCIATES, P.C., Arlington, Virginia, for Petitioner. Stuart F. Delery, Assistant A
Summary: UNPUBLISHED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT No. 14-1184 EUGENE OPOKU-BAMFO, Petitioner, v. ERIC H. HOLDER, JR., Attorney General, Respondent. On Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration Appeals. Submitted: July 16, 2014 Decided: July 30, 2014 Before NIEMEYER, MOTZ, and DUNCAN, Circuit Judges. Petition denied by unpublished per curiam opinion. Randall L. Johnson, JOHNSON & ASSOCIATES, P.C., Arlington, Virginia, for Petitioner. Stuart F. Delery, Assistant At..
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UNPUBLISHED
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT
No. 14-1184
EUGENE OPOKU-BAMFO,
Petitioner,
v.
ERIC H. HOLDER, JR., Attorney General,
Respondent.
On Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration
Appeals.
Submitted: July 16, 2014 Decided: July 30, 2014
Before NIEMEYER, MOTZ, and DUNCAN, Circuit Judges.
Petition denied by unpublished per curiam opinion.
Randall L. Johnson, JOHNSON & ASSOCIATES, P.C., Arlington,
Virginia, for Petitioner. Stuart F. Delery, Assistant Attorney
General, Holly M. Smith, Senior Litigation Counsel, Remi da
Rocha-Afodu, Office of Immigration Litigation, UNITED STATES
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, Washington, D.C., for Respondent.
Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.
PER CURIAM:
Eugene Opoku-Bamfo, a native and citizen of Ghana,
petitions for review of an order of the Board of Immigration
Appeals (“Board”) dismissing his appeal from the immigration
judge’s decision, which denied Opoku-Bamfo’s motion for a
continuance and ordered him removed to Ghana. We have reviewed
the administrative record and find no abuse of discretion. See
Lendo v. Gonzales,
493 F.3d 439, 441 (4th Cir. 2007) (setting
forth standard of review). Accordingly, we deny the petition
for review for the reasons stated by the Board. In re: Opoku-
Bamfo (B.I.A. Jan. 29, 2014). * We dispense with oral argument
because the facts and legal contentions are adequately presented
in the materials before this court and argument would not aid
the decisional process.
PETITION DENIED
*
The Attorney General appears to concede that the Board
failed to adequately address Opoku-Bamfo’s argument that the
immigration judge did not give him an opportunity to seek
prosecutorial discretion with the Department of Homeland
Security (“DHS”). To the extent that any error occurred, we
conclude that remand is not warranted “[b]ecause the result of a
remand to the Board is a foregone conclusion such that remand
would amount to nothing more than a mere formality.” Hussain v.
Gonzales,
477 F.3d 153, 158 (4th Cir. 2007). Opoku-Bamfo does
not claim that he has ever attempted to confer with the DHS
regarding the exercise of prosecutorial discretion in his case,
and thus cannot credibly claim that the agency should have
granted an open-ended continuance on this ground.
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