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MERI, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
    No. 09-70057.
    United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
    Submitted Feb. 15, 2011.
    
    Filed March 2, 2011.
    Albert C. Lum, Sr., Esquire, Law Office of Albert C. Lum, Pasadena, CA, for Petitioner.
    Chief Counsel Ice, Office of the Chief Counsel, Department of Homeland Security, San Francisco, CA, Anna Nelson, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Respondent.
    Before: CANBY, FERNANDEZ, 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

Meri, a native and citizen of Indonesia, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) order denying her motion to reopen and reconsider. Our jurisdiction is governed by 8 U.S.C. § 1252. We review for abuse of discretion the denial of a motion to reopen or reconsider, Mohammed v. Gonzales, 400 F.3d 785, 791 (9th Cir.2005), and we deny in part, and dismiss in part, the petition for review.

The BIA did not abuse its discretion in denying Meri’s August 11, 2008, motion as untimely and number barred because it was filed more than four years after the BIA’s January 20, 2004, decision, and because Meri had already filed one previous motion to reopen and reconsider. See 8 C.F.R. § 1003.2(b)(2), (c)(2). Meri did not provide any evidence of changed circumstances in Indonesia that might have excused the untimely filing of a motion to reopen under 8 C.F.R. § 1003.2(c)(3)(ii). See 8 C.F.R. § 1003.2(c)(1) (“A motion to reopen proceedings shall state the new facts that will be proven at a hearing to be held if the motion is granted and shall be supported by affidavits or other evidentiary material.”); see also Azanor v. Ashcroft, 364 F.3d 1013, 1022 (9th Cir.2004) (changes in United States asylum law do not constitute changed circumstances).

We lack jurisdiction to review the BIA’s decision not to invoke its sua sponte authority to reopen proceedings under 8 C.F.R. § 1003.2(a). See Ekimian v. INS, 303 F.3d 1153, 1159 (9th Cir.2002). If we had jurisdiction to review the BIA’s decision, we would find no abuse of discretion.

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.