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Mamikon MELIKSETYAN, Petitioner, v. Loretta E. LYNCH, Attorney General, Respondent.
    No. 12-71987.
    United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
    Submitted June 22, 2015.
    
    Filed July 1, 2015.
    Ruben Neshan Sarkisian, Glendale, CA, for Petitioner.
    Mamikon Meliksetyan, pro se.
    Oil, Wendy Benner-Leon, Esquire, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, Chief Counsel Ice, Office of the Chief Counsel Department of Homeland Security, San Francisco, CA, for Respondent.
    Before: HAWKINS, GRABER, and W. FLETCHER, Circuit Judges.
    
      
       The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).
    
   MEMORANDUM

Mamikon Meliksetyan, a native and citizen of Armenia, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) denial of his motion to reconsider and motion to reopen removal proceedings. Our jurisdiction is governed by 8 U.S.C. § 1252. We review for abuse of discretion the BIA’s denial of motions to reopen and reconsider, Cano-Merida v. INS, 311 F.3d 960, 964 (9th Cir.2002), and we deny in part and dismiss in part the petition for review.

The BIA did not abuse its discretion in denying Meliksetyan’s motion to reconsider, because Meliksetyan failed to identify any error of fact or law in the BIA’s prior decision. See 8 C.F.R. § 1003.2(b)(1). Further, we reject Meliksetyan’s contentions that the BIA failed to adequately review the evidence, see Najmabadi v. Holder, 597 F.3d 983, 990-91 (9th Cir. 2010) (BIA adequately considered evidence and sufficiently announced its decision). We lack jurisdiction to consider Melikse-tyan’s contentions regarding the agency’s adverse credibility determination, because he did not raise them to the agency in the motion to reconsider. See Barron v. Ashcroft, 358 F.3d 674, 677-78 (9th Cir.2004) (no jurisdiction over legal claims not presented in administrative proceedings below).

Finally, the BIA did not abuse its discretion in denying Meliksetyan’s fourth motion to reopen as untimely and number-barred because the motion was filed over five years after the BIA’s final decision, see 8 C.F.R. § 1003.2(c)(2), and he failed to establish materially changed circumstances in Armenia to qualify for the regulatory exception to the time limitations for motions to reopen, see 8 C.F.R. § 1003.2(c)(3)(ii); Toufighi v. Mukasey, 538 F.3d 988, 996 (9th Cir.2008) (BIA may deny a motion to reopen for failure to establish materially changed country conditions).

PETITION FOR REVIEW DENIED in part; DISMISSED in part. 
      
       This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.