Morales
Morales v. Gonzales
Opinion
Lead Opinion
MEMORANDUM **
Carmen Morales, a native and citizen of Guatemala, petitions for review of an order of the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) affirming without opinion an immigration judge’s (“IJ”) decision denying her motion to reopen deportation proceedings in which she was ordered deported in absentia. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1252 , and deny the petition for review.
Reviewing for abuse of discretion, Cano-Merida v. INS, 311 F.3d 960, 964 (9th Cir.2002), we conclude that the IJ acted within his discretion in denying Morales’s motion to reopen because she failed to provide an address where she could be contacted, as required by the Order to Show Cause. See 8 C.F.R. § 3.15 (c) (1994) (“If the alien’s address is not provided on the Order to Show Cause ... the alien *639 must provide to the Office of the Immigration Judge where the Order to Show Cause has been filed, within five days of service of the Order, a written notice of an address and telephone number at which the alien can be contacted....”). The IJ’s rejection of Morales’s contention that the agency should have mailed her hearing notice to the address in Guatemala contained on her “Record of…