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Parties Involved:
Enrique Dominguez-Gutierrez
Petitioner
Loretta E. Lynch
Respondent

Document Text:

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE TENTH CIRCUIT

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ENRIQUE DOMINGUEZ-GUTIERREZ, 

 Petitioner,

v.

LORETTA E. LYNCH, United States 

Attorney General, 

 Respondent.

No. 15-9571

(Petition for Review)

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ORDER

_________________________________

Before LUCERO, MATHESON, and BACHARACH, Circuit Judges.

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This matter comes on for consideration of the government’s motion to dismiss and 

the responses filed by the petitioner. Upon consideration thereof, the motion is granted.

This court only has jurisdiction to review final orders of removal. 8 U.S.C. § 

1252(a)(1); Luna-Garcia v. Holder, 777 F.3d 1182, 1184 (10th Cir. 2015). The order 

entered by the Board of Immigration Appeals denying the petitioner’s motion to reopen is 

not a final order of removal. However, the reinstated removal order issued in the 

petitioner’s matter became final when the Immigration Judge affirmed the asylum 

officer’s negative reasonable fear determination. Id. at 1184 n.2 (because there is no 

appeal from this order, the reasonable fear and withholding of removal proceedings 

became final at this point). This order was issued on March 12, 2013. The petition for 

FILED

United States Court of Appeals

Tenth Circuit

January 14, 2016

Elisabeth A. Shumaker

Clerk of Court

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review was filed on October 13, 2015, well beyond the 30-day time limit. 8 U.S.C. § 

1252(b)(1) (the petition “must be filed no later than 30 days after the date of the final 

order of removal.”). This time limit is mandatory and jurisdictional. Luna-Garcia, 777 

F.3d at 1185.

Accordingly, the government’s motion to dismiss is GRANTED and this matter is 

DISMISSED. 

Entered for the Court

ELISABETH A. SHUMAKER, Clerk

by: Ellen Rich Reiter

 Jurisdictional Attorney

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