Bhasin

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

USHA BHASIN, 

Petitioner, No. 03-73481 v.  Agency No.

A77-424-778

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

Argued and Submitted April 15, 2005—San Francisco, California

Filed September 1, 2005

Before: Donald P. Lay,* Betty B. Fletcher, and Michael Daly Hawkins, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge B. Fletcher

*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). *The Honorable Donald P. Lay, Senior United States Circuit Judge for the Eighth Circuit, sitting by designation.

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COUNSEL

Robert B. Jobe, Esquire, San Francisco, California, for the petitioner.

Victor M. Lawrence, Office of Immigration Litigation, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for the respondent. BHASIN v. GONZALES 12041

OPINION

B. FLETCHER, Circuit Judge:

Petitioner Usha…