Gustabo Gonzales-Solis v. Immigration & Naturalization Service

57 F.3d 1077 NOTICE: Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3 provides that dispositions other than opinions or orders designated for publication are not precedential and should not be cited except when relevant under the doctrines of law of the case, res judicata, or collateral estoppel. Gustabo GONZALES-SOLIS, Petitioner, v. IMMIGRATION & NATURALIZATION SERVICE, Respondent. No. 94-70080. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted April 11, 1995. Decided May 26, 1995. Before: POOLE, BOOCHEVER, and WIGGINS, Circuit Judges. 1 MEMORANDUM * 2 Gustabo Gonzales-Solis seeks review of the Board of Immigration Appeals' ["BIA"] affirmance of the Immigration Judge's ("IJ") denial of his applications for registry, suspension of deportation, and waiver of inadmissibility, and its reversal of the IJ's grant of voluntary departure. 3 This court reviews the BIA's decision, rather than that of the IJ. See Hartooni v. INS, 21 F.3d 336, 340 (9th Cir. 1994). When the BIA defers to the IJ, however, for example in reviewing the IJ's finding that a witness was not credible, this court reviews both the BIA's and the IJ's findings for substantial evidence, giving substantial deference to the…