Ndidi Nnaji v. Loretta E. Lynch

MEMORANDUM

The 90-day stay of proceedings in this case expired on June 15, 2015. Thus, the respondent’s motion to terminate the stay is denied as moot.

Ndidi Nnaji, a native and citizen of Nigeria, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) November 3, 2012, order dismissing his appeal from an immigration judge’s (“U”) decision denying his application for asylum, withholding of removal, and protection under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”). We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . We deny the petition for review.

Nnaji previously appealed the BIA’s January 24, 2011, order dismissing his appeal from the IJ’s denial of his claims (No. 11-70554), and we remanded to the BIA pursuant to respondent’s unopposed motion. Following remand, the BIA again dismissed Nnaji’s- appeal, and Nnaji appealed again (No. 12-73962).

In his opening brief, Nnaji challenges the BIA’s time-bar analysis but does not raise any substantive challenge to the BIA’s dispositive finding that he did not establish a nexus to a protected ground. See Martinez-Serrano v. INS, 94 F.3d 1256, 1259-60 (9th Cir.1996) (issues not specifically raised and argued in a party’s opening brief…