Nunez

MEMORANDUM **

Catalina Garcia Nunez petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) decision affirming the immigration judge’s (“IJ”) denial of her motion to reopen her deportation proceedings. 1 We *667 have jurisdiction pursuant to 8 U.S.C. §§ 1105a and 1252.

Nunez, a native and citizen of Mexico, entered the United States in 1989 and, along with her United States-born daughter, has lived here ever since. In 1996, Nunez retained a notario 2 , Reyna Dorantes, who operated General Legal Services, to assist her in the “labor certification process.” In October of 1996, Nunez received “proof’ of her “legal permanent residency” and employment authorization from Dorantes in the form of a red stamp in her passport, which Nunez was told was from the INS. Dorantes further explained that Nunez would receive her permanent residency card in the mail within the next twelve to twenty-four months.

On September 24, 1996, an application for asylum and withholding of removal was filed in Nunez’s name. Nunez’s address on the application was listed as 8168 E. Gage Ave., Huntington Park, California 90255. In fact, this was the address of Dorantes’s General Legal Services…