NOTE: This order is nonprecedential United States Court of AppeaIs for the FederaI Circuit PERPETUA SAOY-CINCO, Claim,ant-Appellant, ' V. ERIC K. SI~IINSEKI, SECRETARY OF VETERANS AFFAIRS, .

Resp0ndent-Appellee.

2012-7027 ` Appeal from the United States C0urt of Appea1s for Veterans C1aims in 10-1902, Judge Kenneth B. Kramer.

ON MOTION Bef0re BRYSON, MAYER, and LlNN, Circuit Judges.

PER CUR1AM. ' ORDER Perpetua Saoy-Cinco and the Secretary of Veterans Af`fairs respond to this court’s January 17, 2012 order directing the parties to show cause why this appeal should not be dismissed as untimely SAOY-CINCO V. DVA 2 On September 20, 2011, the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans C1aims entered judgment in Saoy- Cinco’s case. The court received Saoy-Cinco’s notice of appeal on November 22, 2011, 63 days after the date of judgment To be timely, a notice of appeal must be filed with the Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims within 60 days of the entry ofjudgment. See 38 U.S.C. § 7292(a); 28 U.S.C. § 2107(b); Fed. R. App. P. 4(a)(1); see also Henderson, v. Shinseki, 131 S. Ct. 1197, 1204-05 (2011) (the language of Section 7292(a) "clear1y signals an intent" to impose the same jurisdictional restrictions on an appeal from the Veterans Court to the Federal Circuit as imposed on appeals from a district court to a court of appeals). The statutory deadline for taking an appeal to this court is jurisdictional and thus mandatory. See Bowles v. Russell, 551 U.S. 205 (2007). As such, this court "has no authority to create equitable exceptions to jurisdictional require- ments," even if such “rigorous rules . . . are thought to be inequitable[.]” Id. at 214.

Because Saoy-Cinco’s appeal was filed three days out- side of the statutory deadline for taking an appeal to this court, we must dismiss the appeal.

Accordingly, IT ls ORDERED THAT: (1) The appeal is dismissed (2) Each side shall bear its own costs.

F'oR THE CoURT APR 0 2 2012 /s/ J an Horbaly Date Jan Horbaly Clerk FlLED U.S. COUHT 0F APPEALS FOB THE FEDERAL ClRCU|T APR 02 2012 JAN H0llBAL¥ CLERK l 3 cc: Perpetua Saoy-Cinco Tara K. Hogan, Esq. s19 SAOY-CINCO V. DVA