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Mikalai MIKULA, Petitioner, v. Loretta E. LYNCH, Attorney General, Respondent.
    No. 13-72192.
    United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
    Submitted April 4, 2016.
    
    Filed April 15, 2016.
    Robert Bradford Jobe, Esquire, Law Offices of Robert B. Jobe, San Francisco, CA, for Petitioner.
    Matt Crapo, OIL, DOJ-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: FARRIS, BEA, and M. SMITH, Circuit Judges.
    
      
       The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).
    
   MEMORANDUM

Mikalai Mikula petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ order denying his motion to reopen removal proceedings conducted in absentia. We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252. We review the denial of a motion to reopen for abuse of discretion and defer to the BIA’s interpretations of the Immigration and Nationality Act depending on the thoroughness, reasonableness, consistency, and persuasiveness of the BIA’s analysis. See Kyong Ho Shin v. Holder, 607 F.3d 1213, 1219 (9th Cir.2010). We deny the petition for review.

The BIA did not abuse its discretion by finding that notice was proper under 8 U.S.C. § 1229(a), where Mikula was personally served a Notice to Appear and hearing notices informing him of the time, date, and place of his removal hearing and containing advisals of the consequences of failing to appear. See Khan v. Ashcroft, 374 F.3d 825, 828-29 (9th Cir.2004) (holding notice was proper where INS adhered to statutory notice requirements). We are not persuaded by Mikula’s argument that his Notice to Appear and hearing notices did not adequately explain the consequences of failing to appear under 8 U.S.C. § 1229a(b)(5), as required by 8 U.S.C. § 1229(a). The Board reasonably interpreted these provisions to require notice of the consequences of failing to appear, namely that an order of removal may issue, and not other details of the statutory framework for applying, reviewing, and rescinding an in absentia removal order.

Mikula’s argument that the language in his hearing notices was affirmatively misleading is without merit. Advising an alien in removal proceedings that the hearing “may” be held in his absence and an order of removal “will be entered” upon certain findings suitably reflects statutory directives. . .

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