Vicente Villicana-Mendez v. Loretta E. Lynch

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Vicente Villicana-Mendez v. Loretta E. Lynch, 632 F. App'x 409 (9th Cir. 2016)

Vicente Villicana-Mendez v. Loretta E. Lynch

Opinion

MEMORANDUM **

Vicente Villicana-Mendez, a native and citizen of Mexico, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) order denying his motion to reopen. We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252. We review for abuse of discretion the denial of a motion to reopen. Mohammed v. Gonzales, 400 F.3d 785, 791 (9th Cir. 2005). We deny the petition for review.

The BIA did not abuse its discretion by denying Villicana-Mendez’s motion to reopen as untimely, where it was filed more than 10 years after the BIA’s final order of removal, see 8 C.F.R. § 1003.2(c)(2), and Villicana-Mendez failed to establish the due diligence required for equitable tolling of the filing deadline, see Avagyan v. Holder, 646 F.3d 672, 679 (9th Cir. 2011) (equitable tolling is available to an alien who is prevented from timely filing a motion to reopen due to deception, fraud or error, as long as petitioner exercises due diligence in discovering such circumstances).

PETITION FOR REVIEW DENIED.

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This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.

Reference

Full Case Name
Vicente VILLICANA-MENDEZ, Petitioner, v. Loretta E. LYNCH, Attorney General, Respondent
Status
Unpublished