420 F. App'x 747

XIAN LIN CHEN, a.k.a. Jessica Ch Lee, a.k.a. Xiangling Chen, a.k.a. Xian Lian Chen, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.

No. 07-74510.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

*748Submitted Feb. 15, 2011.*

Filed March 10, 2011.

Gary J. Yerman, Esquire, Law Office of Gary J. Yerman, New York, NY, for Petitioner.

Carol Federighi, Esquire, Senior Litigation Counsel, Andrew B. Insenga, OIL, Jonathan Aaron Robbins, Esquire, DOJ-U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, Ronald E. Lefevre, Office of the District Counsel, Department of Homeland Security, San Francisco, CA, for Respondent.

Before: CANBY, FERNANDEZ, and M. SMITH, Circuit Judges.

MEMORANDUM **

Xian Lin Chen, a native and citizen of China, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) order denying her motion to reopen removal proceedings. We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252. We review for abuse of discretion the denial of a motion to reopen, Lin v. Holder, 588 F.3d 981, 984 (9th Cir.2009), and we deny the petition for review.

The BIA did not abuse its discretion by denying Chen’s motion to reopen as untimely where the motion was filed nearly four years after the BIA’s December 19, 2002, order dismissing the underlying appeal, see 8 C.F.R. § 1003.2(c)(2), and Chen failed to show changed circumstances in China in order to qualify for the regulatory exception to the filing deadline, see id. § 1003.2(c)(3)(h); Lin, 588 F.3d at 988-89 (record did not show material change in enforcement of family planning laws sufficient to establish changed country conditions and excuse an untimely motion to reopen). Contrary to Chen’s contention, the BIA considered the evidence she submitted and applied the correct prima facie eligibility requirement. See Toufighi v. Mukasey, 538 F.3d 988, 996 (9th Cir.2008).

Chen’s contention that she should have been permitted to file a successive asylum application under 8 U.S.C. § 1158(a)(2)(D) is foreclosed by Chen v. Mukasey, 524 F.3d 1028, 1032 (9th Cir.2008) (an alien subject to a final removal order may only reapply for asylum through a successful motion to reopen).

PETITION FOR REVIEW DENIED.

Xian Lin Chen v. Holder
420 F. App'x 747

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Xian Lin Chen v. Holder
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