Karapetyan

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

ARTUR KARAPETYAN, 

Petitioner, No. 05-75865 v.  Agency No. MICHAEL B. MUKASEY, Attorney A95-179-012 General, Respondent. 

ARTUR KARAPETYAN, 

Petitioner, No. 05-77141 v.  Agency No.

A95-179-012

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

Argued and Submitted February 8, 2008—Pasadena, California

Filed September 16, 2008

Before: Harry Pregerson and Kim McLane Wardlaw, Circuit Judges, and Glenn L. Archer, Jr.,* Senior Circuit Judge.

*The Honorable Glenn L. Archer, Jr., Senior United States Circuit Judge for the Federal Circuit, sitting by designation.

12873 12874 KARAPETYAN v. MUKASEY Opinion by Judge Pregerson KARAPETYAN v. MUKASEY 12877

COUNSEL

Howard R. Davis, Davis, Miller & Neumeister, Van Nuys, California, for the petitioner. 12878 KARAPETYAN v. MUKASEY Peter D. Keisler, Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division; Richard M. Evans, Assistant Director;…