Minasyan

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

ALFRED MINASYAN, 

Petitioner, No. 02-73556 v.  Agency No.

A29-617-744

ALBERTO R. GONZALES,* Attorney General, OPINION Respondent.  On Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration Appeals

Submitted December 7, 2004** Pasadena, California

Filed March 22, 2005

Before: Stephen Reinhardt, Cynthia Holcomb Hall, and Kim McLane Wardlaw, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Reinhardt

*Alberto R. Gonzales is substituted for his predecessor, John Ashcroft, as Attorney General of the United States, pursuant to Fed. R. App. P. 43(c)(2). **This panel unanimously finds this case suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2).

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COUNSEL

Houman Varzandeh, Zaman & Varzandeh, Los Angeles, Cali- fornia, for the petitioner.

Peter D. Keisler, Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division; Linda S. Wendtland, Assistant Director; and Elizabeth J. Ste- vens, Attorney, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Divi- sion, U.S. Department of Justice,…