Karfendi

Karfendi v. Holder

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366 F. App'x 806
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitFebruary 22, 201006-71549California245 words

Opinion

Opinion

MEMORANDUM

Wibowo Muliawan Karfendi and Juniar Tuti Simbolon, natives and citizens of In donesia, petition for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) order denying their motion to reopen removal proceedings. We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . We review for abuse of discretion the denial of a motion to reopen, Malty v. Ashcroft, 381 F.3d 942, 945 (9th Cir.2004). We deny the petition' for review.

The BIA did not abuse its discretion in denying petitioners’ motion to reopen as untimely where petitioners filed the motion more than three years after the BIA’s final order of removal, see 8 C.F.R. § 1003.2 (e)(2) (motion to reopen must be filed within ninety days of final order of removal), and failed to submit new and material evidence of changed country conditions in Indonesia that would excuse the late filing, see 8 C.F.R. § 1003.2 (c)(3)(h); see also Malty, 381 F.3d at 945 (requiring circumstances to have changed sufficiently that a petitioner who previously did not have a legitimate claim for asylum now has a well-founded fear of future persecution).

To the extent petitioners contend that the BIA failed to consider some or all of the evidence they…

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