Jose Rios v. Eric H. Holder Jr.

MEMORANDUM

Jose Luis Rios and Maria Elena Rios, husband and wife and natives and citizens of Peru, petition pro se for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) order denying their motion to reopen removal proceedings. Our jurisdiction is governed by 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . We review for abuse of discretion the denial of a motion to reopen. Toufighi v. Mukasey, 538 F.3d 988, 992 (9th Cir.2008). We deny in part and dismiss in part the petition for review.

The BIA did not abuse its discretion in denying petitioners’ motion to reopen as untimely because it was filed more than ten years after the BIA’s final order of removal. See 8 U.S.C. § 1229a(c)(7)(C)(i)(motion to reopen must be filed within ninety days of final order of removal).

We lack jurisdiction to review petitioners’ contention that they did not receive the BIA’s 1997 decision because petitioners failed to exhaust this issue before the BIA. See Barron v. Ashcroft, 358 F.3d 674, 678 (9th Cir.2004).

We also lack jurisdiction to review the BIA’s decision not to invoke its sua sponte authority to reopen proceeding, see Ekimian v. INS, 303 F.3d 1153, 1159 (9th Cir. 2002) , and its underlying order dismissing petitioners’…