FILED
NOT FOR PUBLICATION SEP 22 2010
MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS U .S. C O U R T OF APPE ALS
FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
KEWU FENG, Nos. 07-72759
07-74898
Petitioner,
Agency No. A098-440-328
v.
ERIC H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, MEMORANDUM *
Respondent.
On Petition for Review of an Order of the
Board of Immigration Appeals
Submitted September 13, 2010 **
Before: SILVERMAN, CALLAHAN, and N.R. SMITH, Circuit Judges.
In these consolidated petitions for review, Kewu Feng, a native and citizen
of China, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”)
orders denying his motion to reopen and his motion to reconsider. Our jurisdiction
is governed by 8 U.S.C. § 1252. We review for abuse of discretion the denial of
*
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent
except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.
**
The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision
without oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2).
motions to reopen and motions reconsider. See Mohammed v. Gonzales, 400 F.3d
785, 791-92 (9th Cir. 2005). We deny in part and dismiss in part the petitions for
review.
The BIA did not abuse its discretion in denying Feng’s motion to reopen
because the motion was untimely, see 8 C.F.R. § 1003.2(c)(2), and Feng failed to
establish changed circumstances in China to qualify for the regulatory exception to
the time limit for filing motions to reopen, see 8 C.F.R. § 1003.2(c)(3)(ii); see also
Bhasin v. Gonzales, 423 F.3d 977, 987 (9th Cir. 2005) (explaining 8 C.F.R. §
1003.2(c)(1) requires “the evidence must not have been available to be presented at
the former hearing before the IJ”) (citation and internal quotations omitted). We
lack jurisdiction to review Feng’s claim that the ineffective assistance of his former
counsel tolled the time limit for filing his motion to reopen because he failed to
exhaust this claim before the BIA. See Barron v. Ashcroft, 358 F.3d 674, 678 (9th
Cir. 2004).
The BIA did not abuse its discretion in denying Feng’s motion to reconsider
because Feng failed to identify any error of fact or law in the BIA’s January 29,
2007, order. See 8 C.F.R. § 1003.2(b)(1); see also 8 C.F.R. § 1003.2(b)(3) (“A
motion to reconsider based solely on an argument that the case should not have
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been affirmed without opinion by a single Board Member, or by a three-Member
panel, is barred.”).
Finally, we lack jurisdiction to review Feng’s contentions regarding the
underlying merits of the BIA’s summary order, because Feng did not file a timely
petition for review of that order. See 8 U.S.C. § 1252(b)(1); Martinez-Serrano v.
INS, 94 F.3d 1256, 1258 (9th Cir. 1996) (time period for filing a petition for review
with the court of appeals is not tolled by the filing of a motion to reopen or
reconsider).
PETITIONS FOR REVIEW DENIED in part; DISMISSED in part.
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