Corey Jamayne Taylor, Texas prisoner #1313186, was found guilty of reckless injury to a child and was sentenced to 17 years of imprisonment. His initial 28 U.S.C. § 2254 application was dismissed as time barred. Taylor filed a subsequent § 2254 application challenging the instant conviction based upon similar allegations to those raised in his initial application. The district court transferred the application to this court as an unauthorized successive § 2254 application.

Taylor requests a certificate of appeala-bility (COA) to appeal the district court’s order transferring his application to this court as a successive § 2254 application. Because “a transfer order under [28 U.S.C.] § 1631 is not a final order within the meaning of [28 U.S.C.] § 2253(c)(1)(B), ... the appeal of such an order does not require a COA.” United States v. Fulton, 780 F.3d 683, 688 (5th Cir. 2015), petition for cert. filed (July 21, 2015) (No. 15-6348). Thus, we deny Taylor’s motion for a COA as unnecessary.

On appeal, Taylor does not address the reasoning of the district court’s transfer order. He does not contest whether the district court erred in finding that his § 2254 application was a successive application or set forth any bases upon which his application is not successive for purposes of § 2254. The record otherwise reflects that the claims raised by Taylor are successive because they were, or could have been raised, in his first § 2254 application. See In re Cain, 137 F.3d 234, 235 (5th Cir. 1998).

Thus, the district court properly concluded that Taylor could not file his § 2254 application unless he obtained permission to do so from this court. See 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(3)(A). The order of the district court therefore is affirmed.

COA DENIED; AFFIRMED.