Sarwar
Sarwar v. Gonzales
Opinion
Lead Opinion
MEMORANDUM **
Raja Gulfam Sarwar, a native and citizen of Pakistan, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) order dismissing his appeal from an Immigration Judge’s order denying his second motion to reopen deportation proceedings conducted in absentia. * We review for abuse of discretion the BIA’s ruling on a motion to reopen. Castillo-Perez v. INS, 212 F.3d 518, 523 (9th Cir.2000). Questions of law are reviewed de novo, as are claims of due process violations. Id. We dismiss in part, and deny in part, the petition for review.
The BIA acted within ,its discretion in concluding that Sarwar’s second motion to reopen, filed more than nine years after the IJ’s order of deportation, was untimely and numerically barred. See 8 C.F.R. § 1003.23 (b)(3) (requiring motions to reopen to be filed within ninety days of a final administrative order of removal). Sarwar does not argue that his second motion to reopen falls within any of the exceptions to the time and numerical limi *79 tations under 8 C.F.R. § 1003.23 (b)(4)(iii)(D).
We lack jurisdiction to consider Sarwar’s challenges to his 1994 deportation order. See Martinez-Serrano v. INS, 94 F.3d 1256, 1258 (9th…