Case Name: Walter Ivan RIVERA-AYALA, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2014-03-14
Citations: 563 F. App'x 548
Docket Number: No. 12-71597
Parties: Walter Ivan RIVERA-AYALA, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
Judges: Before: PREGERSON, LEAVY, and MURGUIA, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 563
Pages: 548–549

Head Matter:
Walter Ivan RIVERA-AYALA, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
No. 12-71597.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Submitted March 10, 2014.
Filed March 14, 2014.
Mariela Elizabeth Camisassa, International Legal Alliance Group, Los Angeles, CA, Margarita Maria Manduley, International Legal Alliance Group, Van Nuys, CA, for Petitioner.
ICE, Office of the Chief Counsel Department of Homeland Security, San Francisco, CA, Jeffrey Ronald Meyer, Esquire, OIL, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Respondent.
Before: PREGERSON, LEAVY, and MURGUIA, Circuit Judges.
The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
Walter Ivan Rivera-Ayala, a native and citizen of Honduras, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals' ("BIA") order dismissing his appeal from an immigration judge's order denying his motion to reconsider. We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252. We review for abuse of discretion the denial of a motion to reconsider and review de novo questions of law. Mohammed v. Gonzales, 400 F.3d 785, 791-92 (9th Cir.2005). We deny the petition for review.
The BIA did not abuse its discretion in denying Rivera-Ayala's motion to reconsider, see 8 C.F.R. § 1003.2(b), where his prior motion to reopen was filed more than eight years after his final order of removal, and he failed to establish the due diligence required to equitably toll the filing deadline, see 8 C.F.R. § 1003.2(c)(2) (motions to reopen generally must be filed within 90 days of final order of removal); Avagyan v. Holder, 646 F.3d 672, 679, 682 (9th Cir.2011) (petitioner may obtain equitable tolling when prevented from filing because of deception, fraud, or error where petitioner "made reasonable efforts to pursue relief until [he] learned of counsel's ineffectiveness").
PETITION FOR REVIEW DENIED.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.