Sanchez-Quiel

MEMORANDUM *

Pedro Antonio Sanchez-Quiel (“Petitioner”) petitions for review of his final order *407 of deportation entered by the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) on May 21, 1999. The facts and prior proceedings are known to the parties; they are not restated herein except as necessary.

Petitioner was served with an order to show cause (“OSC”) on May 10, 1996— approximately six years and eight months after he entered the United States. At a hearing on May 7, 1997, the Immigration Judge denied Petitioner’s application for suspension of deportation because Petitioner had failed to meet the continuous physical presence requirement before being served with the OSC and thus was statutorily ineligible for suspension. On appeal, the BIA affirmed.

Petitioner contends that he was eligible for suspension of deportation and challenges the BIA’s decision that the “stop-time rule” — a new continuous physical presence requirement set forth in the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996, 110 Stat. 3009 -625 (“IIRIRA”) — bars such relief in his case. 1 Petitioner’s arguments challenging the application of the stop-time rule are foreclosed by our recent decision…