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RONG DI WANG, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., United States Attorney General, Respondent.
    No. 11-2855-ag.
    United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.
    Aug. 10, 2012.
    
      Vlad Kuzmin, Kuzmin & Associates, P.C., New York, NY, for Petitioner.
    Tony West, Assistant Attorney General; Linda S. Wernery, Assistant Director; Sarah Maloney, Trial Attorney, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Respondent.
    PRESENT: JOSÉ A. CABRANES, GERARD E. LYNCH, and SUSAN L. CARNEY, Circuit Judges.
   SUMMARY ORDER

Rong Di Wang, a native and citizen of the People’s Republic of China, seeks review of a June 15, 2011, order of the BIA denying his motion to reopen. In re Rong Di Wang, No. [ AXXX XXX XXX ] (B.I.A. June 15, 2011). We assume the parties’ familiarity with the underlying facts and procedural history of this case.

We review the BIA’s denial of a motion to reopen for abuse of discretion, mindful of the Supreme Court’s admonition that such motions are “disfavored.” All v. Gonzales, 448 F.3d 515, 517 (2d Cir.2006) (quoting INS v. Doherty, 502 U.S. 314, 322-23, 112 S.Ct. 719, 116 L.Ed.2d 823 (1992)). There is no dispute that Wang’s 2010 motion to reopen, his third such motion, was untimely and number-barred because his administrative order of deportation became final in 1996. See 8 U.S.C. § 1229a(c)(7)(A), (C)(i); 8 C.F.R. § 1003.2(c)(2). To the extent Wang contends that the time and number limitations do not apply to his motion to reopen because his motion is “based on changed circumstances arising in” China, 8 U.S.C. § 1229a(e)(7)(C)(ii); 8 C.F.R. § 1003.2(c)(3)(ii), his arguments are unpersuasive.

Wang asserts that he joined the Party for Freedom and Democracy in China (“PFDC”) after being ordered removed from the United States, and that Chinese officials contacted his father about his pro-democracy activities. However, as the BIA found, his membership in the PFDC was a change in personal circumstances, not a change in country conditions. See Yuen Jin v. Mukasey, 538 F.3d 143, 155 (2d Cir.2008).

Moreover, the record supports the BIA’s determination that Wang has not established changed conditions arising in China, as a comparison of the State Department reports Wang submitted in his original proceeding and with his motion to reopen showed only a continuation of repression of political dissidents. See In re S-Y-G-, 24 I. & N. Dec. 247, 253 (BIA 2007) (where a motion to reopen is based on changed country conditions, the inquiry is a comparison between evidence of country conditions submitted with the motion and those that existed at the time of the merits hearing); see also Norani v. Gonzales, 451 F.3d 292, 294 (2d Cir.2006).

Finally, Wang’s argument that the BIA abused its discretion by failing adequately to consider his evidence is without merit; the BIA’s review of the documentary evidence, while succinct, was sufficient to demonstrate that it had “given reasoned consideration to the petition, and made adequate findings.” See Zhi Yun Gao v. Mukasey, 508 F.3d 86, 87 (2d Cir.2007) (internal quotation marks omitted); see also Wei Guang Wang v. BIA, 437 F.3d 270, 275 (2d Cir.2006) (rejecting argument that the BIA must “expressly parse or refute on the record each individual argument or piece of evidence offered by the petitioner” (internal quotation marks omitted)). Therefore, because substantial evidence supports the BIA’s conclusion regarding conditions in China, we find no abuse of discretion in its denial of Wang’s motion to reopen. See 8 U.S.C. § 1229a(c)(7)(A), (C)(i), (ii); Ali v. Gonzales, 448 F.3d at 517.

For the foregoing reasons, the petition for review is DENIED.