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SHUZHU HUANG, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
    No. 08-74814.
    United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
    
      Submitted May 25, 2010.
    
    Filed June 1, 2010.
    Shuzhu Huang, El Monte, CA, pro se.
    Robert Charles Marton, The Law Alliance, A.P.C., Pasadena, CA, for Petitioner.
    OIL, Lindsay Elizabeth Williams, U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division/Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, District Counsel, Esquire, Office of the District Counsel Department of Homeland Security, Los Angeles, CA, Ronald E. Lefevre, Office of the District Counsel Department of Homeland Security, San Francisco, CA, for Respondent.
    Before: CANBY, THOMAS, 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

Shuzhu Huang, a native and citizen of China, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) order denying his motion to reconsider its denial of his second motion to reopen, based on ineffective assistance of counsel. Our jurisdiction is governed by 8 U.S.C. § 1252. We review for abuse of discretion the denial of a motion to reconsider, Cano-Merida v. INS, 311 F.3d 960, 964 (9th Cir.2002), and we review de novo questions of law, including claims of due process violations due to ineffective assistance of counsel, Mohammed v. Gonzales, 400 F.3d 785, 791-92 (9th Cir.2005). We deny in pai't and dismiss in part the petition for review.

The BIA did not abuse its discretion in denying Huang’s motion to reconsider because Huang failed to identify any disposi-tive errors of fact or law in the BIA’s August 20, 2008, order. See 8 C.F.R. § 1003.2(b)(1). In particular, we agree that any ineffective assistance of counsel related to Huang’s request for a joint motion to reopen did not result in prejudice. See Mohammed, 400 F.3d at 793-94 (to prevail on an ineffective assistance of counsel claim, a petitioner must demonstrate prejudice). Huang’s contention that the BIA applied an overly stringent prejudice standard is not persuasive. Huang’s ineffective assistance of counsel claim based upon counsel’s failure to properly file and expedite his 1-130 visa petition fails because any error does not relate “to the fundamental fairness of an ongoing proceeding.” See Balam-Chuc v. Mukasey, 547 F.3d 1044, 1050-51 (9th Cir.2008).

We lack jurisdiction to review Huang’s contentions regarding the BIA’s August 20, 2008, order, because Huang did not file a timely petition for review of that order. See 8 U.S.C. § 1252(b)(1); Minasyan v. Mukasey, 553 F.3d 1224, 1229 (9th Cir.2009).

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.