Najmabadi

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

FARANGIS NAJMABADI, 

Petitioner, No. 05-72401 v.  Agency No.

A072-439-437

ERIC H. HOLDER JR., Attorney General, OPINION Respondent.  On Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration Appeals

Argued and Submitted November 5, 2009—Pasadena, California

Filed March 9, 2010

Before: Harry Pregerson, Jay S. Bybee and Milan D. Smith, Jr., Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Milan D. Smith, Jr.; Dissent by Judge Harry Pregerson

3681 3684 NAJMABADI v. HOLDER

COUNSEL

Enrique Arevalo and Xavier Rosas, Law Office of Enrique Arevalo, South Pasadena, California, for petitioner Farangis Najmabadi.

Peter D. Keisler, Linda S. Wernery, and Angela N. Liang, United States Department of Justice, Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, for respondent Eric H. Holder Jr., United States Attorney General.

OPINION

MILAN D. SMITH, JR., Circuit Judge:

Petitioner, Farangis Najmabadi, a native and citizen of Iran, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’s (BIA or Board) order denying her motion to reopen her…