Imad Aboud v. Eric Holder, Jr.

MEMORANDUM

We dismiss this petition for lack of jurisdiction because the petition for review was due within 30 days of the final order of removal, but the Petitioners did not petition for review until 84 days after the final order of removal. The facts are familiar to the parties, so we only briefly recite them here.

Petitioners Imad Aboud, Rodina Aboud, and their four minor children (collectively, “Petitioners”) came to the United States from Israel in mid-2004 on non-immigrant B-2 visitor visas and never left. Upon expiration of their visas, Petitioners sought asylum, withholding of removal, and protection under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”). Petitioners claimed they suffered, and reasonably feared, persecution for being Christian Arabs in Israel.

In July 2006, the Immigration Judge (“IJ”) found that Petitioners had conceded removability and granted asylum. On October 25, 2007, the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) affirmed the IJ’s remova-bility finding, reversed the asylum grant, and remanded for “issuance of an order of removal.” On remand, the IJ granted Petitioners sixty days of voluntary departure and then certified the case to the BIA “for a final order per…