Keven Patel, AKA Kanubhai Patel v. Immigration and Naturalization Services

2 F.3d 1157 NOTICE: Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3 provides that dispositions other than opinions or orders designated for publication are not precedential and should not be cited except when relevant under the doctrines of law of the case, res judicata, or collateral estoppel. Keven PATEL, aka Kanubhai Patel, Petitioner, v. IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICES, Respondent. No. 92-70041. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Submitted Aug. 5, 1993. * Decided Aug. 13, 1993. Before NORRIS, WIGGINS and O'SCANNLAIN, Circuit Judges. 1 MEMORANDUM ** 2 Kanubhai Patel entered the United States on June 8, 1982, on a one-day visitor's visa and never left. Deportation proceedings were instituted against him by an order to show cause dated June 14, 1983, and amended on May 25, 1987, charging him with having overstayed his visa. A hearing on the merits was held on July 25, 1990. Patel conceded deportability and applied for suspension of deportation under 8 U.S.C. Sec. 1254 (a)(1), or, in the alternative, voluntary departure. The immigration judge found Patel deportable and ineligible for suspension of deportation, both as a matter of law and in the exercise of his discretion, because…