Abbass Ali Golpour v. Immigration and Naturalization Service

Finding flagrant disregard of visa procedures by petitioner in securing admission to the United States as a business visitor, the Board of Immigration Appeals denied petitioner adjustment of status under § 245(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C. § 1255 (a), and ordered his deportation. Petitioner seeks review, asserting that the Board failed to give adequate consideration to the hardship that his deportation would impose on his citizen wife.

Our examination of the record reveals that the Board did consider the possible hardship to his spouse, but found that petitioner’s flagrant disregard of the truth, both before the Immigration Service and the United States consul and before the Special Inquiry Officer, outweighed the possible hardship to his spouse. On this record, we cannot say that the Board abused its broad discretion in arriving at its conclusion. See Santos v. Immigration and Naturalization Service, 375 F.2d 262 (9th Cir. 1967).

Affirmed.

. The Board affirmed the findings of the Special Inquiry Officer that petitioner had obtained unauthorized gainful employment throughout the period he was in the United States as a business visitor; that on three…