Case Name: Zhen Yin WENG, Petitioner, v. Loretta E. LYNCH, United States Attorney General, Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2016-04-28
Citations: 648 F. App'x 25
Docket Number: No. 14-3132
Parties: Zhen Yin WENG, Petitioner, v. Loretta E. LYNCH, United States Attorney General, Respondent.
Judges: PRESENT: GUIDO CALABRESI, DEBRA ANN LIVINGSTON and DENNY CHIN, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 648
Pages: 25–26

Head Matter:
Zhen Yin WENG, Petitioner, v. Loretta E. LYNCH, United States Attorney General, Respondent.
No. 14-3132.
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.
April 28, 2016.
Theodore N. Cox, New York, NY, for Petitioner.
Benjamin C. Mizer, Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General; Stephen J. Flynn, Assistant Director; Ann M. Welhaf, Trial Attorney, Office of Immigration Litigation, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Respondent.
PRESENT: GUIDO CALABRESI, DEBRA ANN LIVINGSTON and DENNY CHIN, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
Petitioner Zhen Yin Weng, a native and citizen of the People's Republic of China, seeks review of an August 5, 2014, decision of the BIA, denying his motion to reopen. In re Zhen Yin Weng, No. [ AXXX XXX XXX ] (B.I.A. Aug. 5, 2014). We assume the parties' familiarity with the underlying facts and procedural history in this case.
The applicable standards of review are well established. See Jian Hui Shao v. Mukasey, 546 F.3d 138, 168-69 (2d Cir.2008). It is undisputed that Weng's motion to reopen was untimely filed more than fifteen years after his deportation order became final. See 8 U.S.C. § 1229a(c)(7)(C)(i); 8 C.F.R. § 1003.2(c)(2). However, the time limitation for filing a motion to reopen does not apply if the motion "is based on changed country conditions arising in the country of nationality or the country to which removal has been ordered, if such evidence is material and was not available and would not have been discovered or presented at the previous proceeding." 8 U.S.C. § 1229a(c)(7)(C)(ii); see also 8 C.F.R. § 1003.2(c)(3)(ii).
The BIA did not err in finding that Weng failed to demonstrate a material change in the enforcement of the family planning policy in his home province of Fujian since his 1997 hearing before the IJ. See In re S-Y-G-, 24 I. & N. Dec. 247, 253 (B.I.A.2007) ("In determining whether evidence accompanying a motion to reopen demonstrates a material change in country conditions that would justify reopening, [the BIA] compare[s] the evidence of country conditions submitted with the motion to those that existed at the time of the merits hearing below."); see also Jian Hui Shao, 546 F.3d at 159-66 (noting that country conditions evidence from 1998 to 2007 indicated that enforcement of the family planning policy was generally lax in Fujian Province with the occasional reports of the use of force). Weng's evidence (including the Annual Reports of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China and local family planning directives) establishes that, in Fujian Province, economic rewards and penalties continue to be the primary means of ensuring compliance with the mandatory fines, birth control measures, abortions, and sterilizations required by the policy. In light of this evidence, a few isolated reports of persecu-tory enforcement did not compel the BIA to find a material change in country conditions. See Jian Hui Shao, 546 F.3d at 155-56, 160, 172-73.
Accordingly, because the agency reasonably found that Weng did not demonstrate a material change in conditions in China, it did not abuse its discretion in denying his motion to reopen as untimely. See 8 U.S.C. § 1229a(c)(7)(C); see also In re S-Y-G- 24 I. & N. Dec. at 253, 257.
For the foregoing reasons, the petition for review is DENIED. As we have completed our review, Weng's pending motions for a stay of removal and to compel his return are DISMISSED as moot. Any pending request for oral argument in this petition is DENIED in accordance with Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 34(a)(2), and Second Circuit Local Rule 34.1(b).