Sofowara
Sofowara v. Holder
Opinion
Lead Opinion
MEMORANDUM **
In these consolidated cases, Edward Idowu Sofowara, a native and citizen of *152 Nigeria, petitions pro se for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) order denying his second motion to reopen in case No. 05-77343. Our jurisdiction is governed by 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . We review the BIA’s denial of a motion to reopen for abuse of discretion, Cano-Merida v. INS, 311 F.3d 960, 964 (9th Cir.2002), and we deny in part and dismiss in part the petition for review. Sofowara also appeals two orders from the district court, dismissing his petitions for writ of habeas corpus, in Nos. 06-15150 and 06-17150, which we dismiss as moot.
The BIA did not abuse its discretion in denying Sofowara’s second motion to reopen filed more than 13 years after the BIA’s final order of deportation, because the motion to reopen was untimely and numerically barred, and did not meet any of the regulatory exceptions. See 8 C.F.R. § 1003.2 (c)(2)-(3).
We lack jurisdiction over Sofowara’s contentions regarding the March 1991 and July 2004 BIA orders because the petition for review is not timely as to those orders. See 8 U.S.C. § 1252 (b)(1); Singh v. INS, 315 F.3d 1186,1188 (9th…