Lion Minas Babayan and Youkina Grikar Minas Babayan v. Immigration & Naturalization Service

24 F.3d 244 NOTICE: Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3 provides that dispositions other than opinions or orders designated for publication are not precedential and should not be cited except when relevant under the doctrines of law of the case, res judicata, or collateral estoppel. Lion Minas BABAYAN and Youkina Grikar Minas Babayan, Petitioners, v. IMMIGRATION & NATURALIZATION SERVICE, Respondent. No. 92-70829. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted May 6, 1994. Decided May 12, 1994. 1 Before: KOZINSKI and TROTT, Circuit Judges, and LEVI, * District Judge. 2 MEMORANDUM ** 3 Lion Minas Babayan and Youkina Grikar Minas Babayan, citizens of Iran and practicing Armenian Christians, petition for review of the decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals ("BIA") upholding the Immigration Judge's ("IJ") denial of their petition for asylum and withholding of deportation. The BIA also denied their motion to remand to give them an opportunity to apply for suspension of deportation. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 8 U.S.C. Sec. 1105 (a), and we deny the petition for review. 4 * Section 208(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act ("Act"), 8 U.S.C. Sec. 1158 (a),…