UNPUBLISHED
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT
No. 01-1629
LUCY JENKAA BADOH,
Petitioner,
versus
JOHN ASHCROFT, Attorney General; U.S. IMMIGRA-
TION & NATURALIZATION SERVICE,
Respondents.
On Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration
Appeals. (A76-903-217)
Submitted: October 17, 2001 Decided: October 31, 2001
Before NIEMEYER and MICHAEL, Circuit Judges, and HAMILTON, Senior
Circuit Judge.
Affirmed by unpublished per curiam opinion.
Bokwe G. Mofor, IMMIGRATION ASSISTANCE CENTER, INC., Silver Spring,
Maryland, for Petitioner. Stuart E. Schiffer, Acting Assistant
Attorney General, Carl H. McIntyre, Jr., Senior Litigation Counsel,
John L. Davis, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division,
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, Washington, D.C., for
Respondents.
Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.
See Local Rule 36(c).
PER CURIAM:
Lucy Jenkaa Badoh, a native and citizen of Cameroon, appeals
the Board of Immigration Appeals (Board) decision denying her
motion to reconsider its ruling dismissing her appeal as untimely.
The immigration judge ordered Badoh removed from the United States
to Cameroon and denied her application for asylum and for relief
under the Convention Against Torture. Badoh’s notice of appeal to
the Board was untimely filed, and the Board dismissed the appeal as
untimely. Badoh moved to reconsider the Board’s decision; the
Board denied the motion. Badoh appeals.
This court reviews the ruling on a motion to reopen or recon-
sider for abuse of discretion. Stewart v. INS, 181 F.2d 587, 595
(4th Cir. 1999); see 8 C.F.R. § 3.2(a) (2001). Nothing Badoh argues
convinces us that the Board abused its discretion in denying her
motion. Therefore, we affirm the Board’s ruling. We dispense with
oral argument because the facts and legal contentions are adequate-
ly presented in the materials before the court and argument would
not aid the decisional process.
AFFIRMED
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