Suntharalinkam

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

ARANGESAN SUNTHARALINKAM, 

Petitioner, No. 04-70258 v.  Agency No.

A79-784-825

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

Argued and Submitted March 10, 2006—Pasadena, California

Filed August 18, 2006

Before: Kim McLane Wardlaw and Johnnie B. Rawlinson, Circuit Judges, and Richard F. Cebull,* District Judge.

Opinion by Judge Wardlaw; Dissent by Judge Rawlinson

*The Honorable Richard F. Cebull, United States District Judge for the District of Montana, sitting by designation. COUNSEL

Visuvanathan Rudrakumaran, Law Office of Visuvanathan Rudrakumaran, New York, New York, for the petitioner.

Genevieve Holm (argued) and Cynthia Stone (briefed), U.S. Dept. of Justice, Civil Division, Office of Immigration Litiga- tion, Washington, D.C., for the respondent. Also on brief for the respondent, Lester M. Joseph and Michael E. Davitt, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Criminal Division, Washington, D.C.

OPINION

WARDLAW,…