Singh

MEMORANDUM **

Gurdeep Singh, a native and citizen of India, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) order denying Singh’s January 18, 2005 motion to reopen removal proceedings and reconsider its previous order dismissing his appeal from an immigration judge’s decision, and for review of the BIA’s order denying Singh’s July 14, 2005 motion to reopen. We review for abuse of discretion the denial of motions to reopening and reconsider, Lara-Torres v. Ashcroft, 383 F.3d 968, 972 (9th Cir.2004), amended by 404 F.3d 1105 (9th Cir.2005), and we deny in part and dismiss in part the petitions for review.

The BIA did not abuse its discretion in denying Singh’s January 18, 2005 motion as untimely because the BIA issued its final order of removal on January 21, 2003, almost two years earlier, see 8 U.S.C. § 1229a(c)(6)(B) and (7)(C)(I), and the BIA *667 did not abuse its discretion in determining that equitable tolling was not warranted. See Iturribarria v. INS, 321 F.3d 889, 897 (9th Cir.2003) (explaining that equitable tolling is available “when a petitioner is prevented from filing because of deception, fraud, or error, as long as the petitioner acts with due…