Case ID: f-appx_388/html/0608-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

CHEN CHEN, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
    No. 06-73360.
    United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
    Submitted June 29, 2010.
    
    Filed July 19, 2010.
    Theodore N. Cox, Esq., Law Offices of Theodore N. Cox, New York, NY, for Petitioner.
    CAC-District Counsel, Esq., Office of the District Counsel, Department of Homeland Security, Los Angeles, CA, Ronald E. Lefevre, Chief Counsel, Office of the District Counsel, Department of Homeland Security, San Francisco, CA, Richard M. Evans, Esq., Ethan B. Kanter, Esq., David E. Dauenheimer, Esq., U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Div./Office of Immigration Lit., Washington, DC, for Respondent.
    Before: ALARCÓN, LEAVY, and GRABER, Circuit Judges.
    
      
       The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2). Accordingly, Chen's request for oral argument is denied.
    
   MEMORANDUM

Chen Chen, a native and citizen of China, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) order denying his motion to reopen removal proceedings to file a second application for asylum and withholding of removal, and to request relief under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”). We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252. We review for abuse of discretion, Lin v. Holder, 588 F.3d 981, 984 (9th Cir.2009), and we deny the petition for review.

The BIA did not abuse its discretion in denying Chen’s motion to reopen as untimely because Chen filed the motion more than 90 days after the BIA’s final decision, see 8 C.F.R. § 1003.2(c)(2), and his evidence did not demonstrate changed circumstances in China, see He v. Gonzales, 501 F.3d 1128, 1132 (9th Cir.2007) (“[T]he birth of children outside the country of origin is a change in personal circumstances that is not sufficient to establish changed circumstances in the country of origin within the regulatory exception to late-filed [motions to reopen].”).

We reject Chen’s contention that there are no time limits for filing a motion to reopen to apply for CAT relief. See 8 C.F.R. § 1003.2(c)(2).

Chen’s contention that his successive asylum application should be considered independent of his motion to reopen is foreclosed* See Lin, 588 F.3d at 989.

Finally, Chen’s due process claim fails because the BIA properly applied the time limitations for motions to reopen set forth in 8 C.F.R. § 1003.2(c)(2) to his untimely second application for asylum. See Lata v. INS, 204 F.3d 1241, 1246 (9th Cir.2000) (requiring error and substantial prejudice for a petitioner to prevail on a due process claim).

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