Ahmet Lebip Demirci v. Herman R. Landon, District Director of the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service in Los Angeles
Ahmet Lebip Demirci v. Herman R. Landon, District Director of the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service in Los Angeles
Opinion of the Court
The question on this appeal from an order denying a writ of habeas corpus is whether the doctrine of estoppel should be applied so as to postpone the deportation of Ahmet Lebip Demirci.
Demirci, a native and citizen of Turkey, was admitted to the United States on March 29, 1948, under the provisions of Section 4(e) of the Immigration Act
The record shows that Demirci failed to comply with the conditions of his nonimmigrant status and in spite of repeated warnings and admonitions, he violated the conditions of his temporary stay in the United States, as well as the alien registration provisions, by moving from one address to another without notifying the Immigration and Naturalization Service. While in the status of a student, he transferred from one school to another without first receiving permission of the Service as required by regulation, and failed to notify the Service after such change was made. In addition, he has ignored the order to depart the United States at the expiration of his temporary stay.
Demirci now urges that the order of deportation should be postponed so as to give him an opportunity to complete his four-year course in business administration. His claim is bottomed on his statement that he was requested by the university officials and representatives of the State Department to change his status upon the assurance that after he
The administrative proceedings before the Immigration and Naturalization Service which gave rise to the order of deportation were reviewed by the trial court in the hearing on the petition for a writ of habeas corpus. The court found that Demirei had had a fair administrative hearing and that there was reasonable, substantial and probative evidence to support the order of deportation. Our examination of the evidence in this case leads us to the same conclusion. Schoeps v. Carmichael, 9 Cir., 1949, 177 F.2d 391, 395.
The order denying the petition for writ of habeas corpus is affirmed.
. Section 4(e) of the Immigration Act of 1924, 43 Stat. 153, provides, in part, as follows:
“Sec. 4. When used in this Act the term ‘non-quota immigrant’ means-- * * *
“(e) An immigrant who is a bona fide student at least 15 years of age and who seeks to enter the United States solely for the purpose of study at an accredited school, college, academy, seminary, or university, particularly designated by him and approved by the Attorney General, which shall have agreed to report to the Attorney General the termination of attendance of each immigrant student, * * *"
. Section-3 (2) of the Immigration Act of 1924, 43 Stat. 153, provides as follows:
“Sec. 3. When used in this Act the term ‘immigrant’ means any alien departing from any place outside the United States destined for the United States, except * * * (2) an alien visiting the United States temporarily as a tourist or temporarily for business or pleasure, * *
Section 201 of the Act of January 27, 1948, Public Law 402, Eightieth Congress, second session, 62 Stat. 6, as amended by the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (commonly referred to as the United States Information and Educational Act of 1948), provides in part at follows:
“The Secretary is authorized to provide for interchanges on a reciprocal basis between the United States and other countries of students, trainees, teachers, guest instructors, professors, * * *. The persons specified in this section shall be admitted as nonimmi-grants wider section 101(a) (15) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, for such time and under such conditions as may be prescribed by regulations promulgated by the Secretary of State and the Attorney General. * * * ” 22 U.S.C.A. § 1446.
. In Ms brief, appellant quotes from Vestal v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, 1945, 80 U.S.App.D.C. 264, 152 F.2d 132, 136:
“The doctrine of election and estoppel must ba applied with great caution to the Government and its officials. But in proper circumstances it does apply.”
Concurring Opinion
I fully concur in the opinion of the Court. However, there is a caveat. In Bustos-Ovalle v. Landon, 9 Cir., 225 F.2d 878, the Court said: in certain instances “habeas corpus has been judicially denied and the Board of Immigration Appeals has thereafter granted a stay of deportation. This is improper and points up the necessity of some showing that the administrative remedies have been exhausted.” The reference was to the subsequent proceedings after our determination in Schoeps v. Carmichael, supra. If the administrative is not m earnest in these deportations, but is to nullify the decisions of the Courts by clement erosion, the petitioners in such instances should be forthwith released from custody judicially by granting the Great Writ.
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