Dervisevic v. Attorney General of the United States
Opinion of the Court
OPINION
Zaim Dervisevic has filed a petition for review of a decision by the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”), which denied his motion to reopen removal proceedings. We construe the Government’s Motion for Summary Affirmance as a motion to summarily deny the petition for review, and so construed, we will grant the motion and deny the petition for review.
Dervisevic is a citizen of Montenegro, who entered the United States in 2002 and stayed beyond the time allowed by his visa. Dervisevic applied for asylum and
Dervisevic filed a motion to reopen on January 8, 2009, based on a pending Refugee/Asylee Relative Petition filed on his behalf by his wife, who had been granted asylum. A motion to reopen must normally be filed within 90 days of a final order, 8 C.F.R. § 1003.2(c)(2); but Dervisevic argued that his motion should be construed as a motion filed jointly with the Government, not subject to the 90-day limit, in light of his efforts to contact the Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”) to obtain their consent.
In affirmations attached to his stay motion, Dervisevic and his attorney both assert that although Dervisevic’s wife and three sons all received political asylum in the United States, the BIA erred by not considering these developments as “new facts” that would permit reopening. All motions to reopen require a showing of “new facts,” 8 C.F.R. § 1003.2(c)(1); thus, simply having “new facts” does not make the motion timely. Dervisevic does not otherwise address the issue of the untimeliness of his motion to reopen in his filings in this Court, nor in the motion to reopen itself, A.R. 40-41. Dervisevic does not base his motion on a change in country conditions, which could excuse an untimely filing, 8 C.F.R. § 1003.2(c)(3)(ii); nor does he refute the BIA’s finding that his motion was not “jointly filed,” 8 C.F.R. § 1003.2(c)(3)(iii). We can discern no other applicable basis on which Dervisevic could claim that his motion was not subject to time limitations.
Because no substantial issue is raised by the petition for review, we will summarily deny the petition.
. A motion ‘‘[a]greed upon by all parties and jointly filed” is not subject to the time and numerical limitations for motions to reopen. 8 C.F.R. § 1003.2(c)(3)(iii).
. We decline to consider Dervisevic’s filing of August 30, 2009, which appears to be a series of exhibits without an accompanying motion or response. Dervisevic did not respond to the Clerk’s noncompliance order entered November 2, 2009.
.Dervisevic’s motion for a stay of removal is denied as moot.
Reference
- Full Case Name
- Zaim DERVISEVIC v. ATTORNEY GENERAL OF the UNITED STATES
- Status
- Published