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Jose Luis Villela MIRANDA, Petitioner, v. Loretta E. LYNCH, Attorney General, Respondent.
    No. 14-71949
    United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
    
      Submitted July 26, 2016 
    
    Filed August 3, 2016
    Rosana Cheung, Attorney, Law Office of Rosana Eat Wai Cheung, Los Angeles, CA, for Petitioner
    Sara Bayram, DOJ—U.S. Department of Justice Civil Division/Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, for Respondent
    Before: SCHROEDER, CANBY, and CALLAHAN, Circuit Judges.
    
      
       The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2).
    
   MEMORANDUM

Jose Luis Villela Miranda, a native and citizen of Guatemala, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) order denying his motion to reopen removal proceedings. We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252. We review for abuse of discretion the BIA’s denial of a motion to reopen. Najmabadi v. Holder, 597 F.3d 983, 986 (9th Cir. 2010). We deny the petition for review.

The BIA did not abuse its discretion denying Villela Miranda’s motion to reopen as untimely, where it was filed more than sixteen years after the agency’s final decision, see 8 C.F.R. § 1003.2(c)(2), and Ville-la Miranda did not establish changed circumstances in Guatemala to overcome the time limitation for a motion to reopen, see 8 C.F.R. § 1003.2(c)(3)(ii); Najmabadi, 597 F.3d at 987-91 (evidence must be “qualitatively different” to warrant reopening).

PETITION FOR REVIEW DENIED. 
      
       This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.