Ramirez-Llanos

MEMORANDUM

Hedilberto Ramirez-Llanos and Maria Ramirez-Zamora, natives and citizens of Mexico, petition pro se for review of a final decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) dismissing their appeal of an immigration judge’s (“IJ”) denial of their motion to reopen to apply for suspension of deportation. Pursuant to the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (“IIRIRA”), the transitional rules apply, see Kalaw v. INS, 133 F.3d 1147, 1150 (9th Cir.1997), and we therefore have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1105a(a), as amended by IIRIRA § 309(c), see Avetova-Elisseva v. INS, 213 F.3d 1192 , 1195 n. 4 (9th Cir.2000). We deny the petition for review.

Petitioners contend that they were eligible for suspension of deportation and challenge the BIA’s decision that the “stop- *748 time rule”-a new continuous physical presence requirement set forth in IIRIRA-bars such relief in this case.

Petitioners’ arguments challenging the application of the stop-time rule are foreclosed by our recent decision in Ram v. INS, 243 F.3d 510, 518-19 (9th Cir.2001). We do not consider petitioners’ eligibility, if any, for relief under the class action pending in the…