Singh

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

MASSA SINGH, 

Petitioner, No. 05-74817 v.  Agency No.

A92-293-501

MICHAEL B. MUKASEY, Attorney General, OPINION Respondent.  On Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration Appeals

Argued and Submitted March 10, 2008—San Francisco, California

Filed July 23, 2008

Before: Stephen Reinhardt, John T. Noonan, Jr. and Raymond C. Fisher, Circuit Judges

Opinion by Judge Fisher COUNSEL

Robert B. Jobe (argued) and Fatma Marouf, Law Offices of Robert B. Jobe, San Francisco, California, for the petitioner.

Patricia A. Smith (argued), Office of Immigration Litigation, Emily Anne Radford and Peter D. Keisler, Assistant Attorney General, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for the respondent. 9102 SINGH v. MUKASEY

OPINION

FISHER, Circuit Judge:

This appeal concerns the right of a criminal alien who was ordered removed before the enactment of the REAL ID Act of 2005 to obtain judicial review of his removal order after the Act became effective on May 11, 2005. Before the REAL ID…