Case Name: MOE TIN-U, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2011-01-31
Citations: 414 F. App'x 21
Docket Number: No. 06-72328
Parties: MOE TIN-U, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
Judges: Before: RAWLINSON and M. SMITH, Circuit Judges, and JONES, District Judge.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 414
Pages: 21–22

Head Matter:
MOE TIN-U, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
No. 06-72328.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Submitted Nov. 2, 2010.
Filed Jan. 31, 2011.
Marvin M. Gong, Dorothy A. Harper, Law Offices of Harper & Gong, Los Ange-les, CA, for Petitioner.
Aliza Bessie Alyeshmerni, Paul Fiorino, Senior Litigation Counsel, OIL, U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division/Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, Chief Counsel ICE, Office of the Chief Counsel, Department of Homeland Security, San Francisco, CA, for Respondent.
Before: RAWLINSON and M. SMITH, Circuit Judges, and JONES, District Judge.
The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).
The Honorable Robert Clive Jones, United States District Judge for the District of Nevada, sitting by designation.

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
Petitioner Moe Tin-U, a native and citizen of Burma, seeks review of a Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) order denying his application for asylum, withholding of removal, and protection under the Convention Against Torture (CAT). As the facts and procedural history are familiar to the parties, we do not recite them here except as necessary to explain our disposition. We affirm.
We have jurisdiction to review the timeliness of Petitioner's application for asylum and the exceptional circumstances exception. Husyev v. Mukasey, 528 F.3d 1172, 1179-80 (9th Cir.2008). Petitioner failed to file his application for asylum within one year after the date of his arrival in the United States. 8 U.S.C. § 1158(a)(2)(B). Petitioner did not show that he had extraordinary circumstances justifying his five-month delay in filing his petition for asylum upon expiration of his visa. See Toj-Culpatan v. Holder, 612 F.3d 1088, 1090-91 (9th Cir.2010).
The BIA did not err in ruling that Petitioner failed to show a clear probability that he would be subject to future persecution because he is gay or because he expressed his political opinions. See INS v. Stevic, 467 U.S. 407, 429-30, 104 S.Ct. 2489, 81 L.Ed.2d 321 (1984). Further, although Petitioner may be arrested on his return for failing to maintain a passport, he did not prove that such arrest will more likely than not result in torture in contravention of the CAT. See Ahmed v. Keisler, 504 F.3d 1183, 1200-01 (9th Cir.2007) (holding that even though petitioner suffered persecution by being arrested and beaten on account of his political opinions, such conduct did not rise to the level of torture).
PETITION DENIED.
disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.