Fredy Antonio Picado-lopez, Petitioner, v. United States Immigration and Naturalization Service, Respondent, 53 F.3d 339 (9th Cir. 1995)

MEMORANDUM^** 

Fredy Antonio Picado-Lopez, a native and citizen of Nicaragua, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals' ("BIA") summary dismissal of his appeal from the immigration judge's ("IJ") decision finding him deportable as charged and denying his application for asylum and withholding of deportation. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1105a(a). We grant the petition for review.

The BIA summarily dismissed the appeal because Picado-Lopez's notice of appeal (form I-290A) failed to list the issues he intended to present to the BIA with sufficient specificity, see 8 C.F.R. Sec. 3.1(d) (1-a) (i) (A),¹  and because he neither filed a brief on appeal nor an explanation for his failure to do so.

In Toquero v. INS, we indicated that the notice of appeal Form I-290A, standing on its own, provides inadequate notice to the alien that his appeal may be summarily dismissed. 956 F.2d 193, 197 (9th Cir. 1992). We then held in Padilla-Agustin v. INS, held that the combination of an inadequate notice of appeal form,²  combined with "the BIA's strict Notice of Appeal requirements, and the failure to give any advance warning before an appeal is dismissed [violates] the due process rights of an alien." 21 F.3d 970, 977 (9th Cir. 1994). Accordingly, because our opinion in Padilla-Agustin v. INS calls into question the adequacy of the BIA's summary dismissal procedures, we grant the petition for review. We remand so that the BIA may consider in the first instance whether its summary dismissal of Picado-Lopez's appeal was proper in light of Padilla-Agustin v. INS.³ 

PETITION FOR REVIEW GRANTED.