UNPUBLISHED
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT
No. 04-2303
VICTORINE ANKONGBE ANGA,
Petitioner,
versus
ALBERTO R. GONZALES, Attorney General,
Respondent.
On Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration
Appeals. (A97-640-214)
Submitted: May 25, 2005 Decided: October 21, 2005
Before WILKINSON, MOTZ, and KING, Circuit Judges.
Petition dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.
Robert L. Oswald, NOTO & OSWALD, P.C., Washington, D.C., for
Petitioner. Peter Keisler, Assistant Attorney General, James
Hunolt, Kenneth W. Rosenberg, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE,
Washington, D.C., for Respondent.
Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.
See Local Rule 36(c).
PER CURIAM:
Victorine Ankongbe Anga, a native and citizen of
Cameroon, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’
(Board) order affirming the immigration judge’s denial of her
motion to reopen.
Pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1252(b)(1) (2000), “[t]he petition
for review must be filed not later than thirty days after the date
of the final order of removal.” This time period is
“jurisdictional in nature and must be construed with strict
fidelity to [its] terms.” Stone v. INS, 514 U.S. 386, 405 (1995).
Moreover, it is well established that the Board’s denial of a
motion to reopen is a final order of removal. See Rose v.
Woolwine, 344 F.2d 993, 994-95 (4th Cir. 1965).
Anga’s petition was filed thirty-three days after the
Board’s affirmance of the immigration judge’s denial of the motion
to reopen; thus, her petition was untimely. Absent jurisdiction to
review the merits of this claim, we dismiss Anga’s petition. We
dispense with oral argument because the facts and legal contentions
are adequately presented in the materials before the court and
argument would not aid the decisional process.
PETITION DISMISSED
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