Pavel Shvetsov v. Eric Holder, Jr.

MEMORANDUM

Pavel Shvetsov and Julia Sosnovskaya, natives and citizens of Russia, 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 and review de novo claims of due process violations. Cano-Merida v. INS, 311 F.3d 960, 964 (9th Cir.2002). We deny the petition for review.

The BIA did not abuse its discretion in denying petitioners’ motion to reopen as untimely, where the motion was filed over three years after the BIA’s final order, see 8 C.F.R. § 1003.2 (c)(2), and petitioners failed to present sufficient evidence of changed circumstances in Russia to qualify for the regulatory exception to the time limit for filing motions to reopen, see 8 C.F.R. § 1003.2 (c)(3)(h); Toufighi v. Mukasey, 538 F.3d 988, 996 (9th Cir.2008) (requiring movant to produce material evidence with motion to reopen that conditions in country of nationality had changed).

We reject petitioners’ contention that the BIA violated their due process rights by failing to provide a reasoned basis for its conclusions. See Lata v. INS,…