Palomo

MEMORANDUM **

Francisco Rosas Palomo, and his wife, Raquel Gutierrez Valencia, natives and citizens of Mexico, petition for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) order affirming the Immigration Judge’s decision denying their motion to reopen removal proceedings conducted in absentia. We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . We review for abuse of discretion, Celis-Castellano v. Ashcroft, 298 F.3d 888, 890 (9th Cir.2002), and we deny the petition for review.

The BIA did not abuse its discretion in denying petitioners’ motion to reopen for failure to establish that their sixteen-year old daughter’s illness amounted to “exceptional circumstances” within the meaning of 8 U.S.C. § 1229a(b)(5)(C) and 1229a(e)(l). A doctor’s note stating that their daughter was seen for vomiting and diarrhea and petitioners’ own declarations to the same effect do not establish that the illness was “serious” within the meaning of the statute. See Celis-Castellano, 298 F.3d at 892 (BIA did not abuse its discretion in concluding that petitioner’s evidence, consisting of a declaration and a medical form, failed to establish that his asthma attack amounted to “exceptional…