Case Name: JIN LAN DONG, Petitioner, v. BOARD OF IMMIGRATION APPEALS, Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2006-11-22
Citations: 199 F. App'x 82
Docket Number: No. 06-2160-AG
Parties: JIN LAN DONG, Petitioner, v. BOARD OF IMMIGRATION APPEALS, Respondent.
Judges: Present JOSÉ A. CABRANES, ROSEMARY S. POOLER and ROBERT D. SACK, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 199
Pages: 82–83

Head Matter:
JIN LAN DONG, Petitioner, v. BOARD OF IMMIGRATION APPEALS, Respondent.
No. 06-2160-AG.
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.
Nov. 22, 2006.
Farah Loftus, Los Angeles, CA, for Petitioner.
Peter Keisler, Assistant United States Attorney General, Civil Division, Rita R. Valdrini, Acting United States Attorney for the Northern District of West Virginia, Helen Campbell Altmeyer, Assistant United States Attorney, Wheeling, WV, for Respondent.
Present JOSÉ A. CABRANES, ROSEMARY S. POOLER and ROBERT D. SACK, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
SUMMARY ORDER
UPON DUE CONSIDERATION of this petition for review of a decision of the Board of 44 Immigration Appeals ("BIA"), it is hereby ORDERED, ADJUDGED, AND DECREED that the petition for review is DENIED.
Petitioner Jin Lan Dong, a native and citizen of the People's Republic of China, seeks review of an April 11, 2006 order of the BIA affirming the September 15, 2005 decision of Immigration Judge ("IJ") Jeffrey Chase denying petitioner's motion to reopen her removal proceedings. In re Jin Lan Dong, No. [ A XX XXX XXX ] (B.I.A. Apr. 11, 2006), affg No. [ A XX XXX XXX ] (Immig. Ct. N.Y. City Sept. 15, 2005). We assume the parties' familiarity with the underlying facts and procedural history of the case.
Where, as here, the BIA summarily affirms the decision of the IJ without issuing an opinion, see 8 C.F.R. § 1003. 1(e)(4), this Court reviews the IJ's decision as the final agency determination. See, e.g., Twum v. INS, 411 F.3d 54, 58 (2d Cir. 2005); Yu Sheng Zhang v. U.S. Dep't of Justice, 362 F.3d 155, 158 (2d Cir.2004). We review for abuse of discretion the denial of a motion to reopen, including the BIA's affirmance of an IJ's denial of a motion to reopen, for abuse of discretion. See Kaur v. BIA 413 F.3d 232, 233 (2d Cir.2005) (per curiam); Twum, 411 F.3d at 58. Because Dong presented no evidence that was unavailable at her former hearing and material to her underlying claims for asylum and withholding of removal, the IJ did not abuse his discretion in denying the motion to reopen. See 8 C.F.R. § 1003.23(b)(3); Kaur, 413 F.3d at 234.
For the foregoing reasons, the petition for review is DENIED. Having completed our review, the pending motion for a stay of removal in this petition is DENIED as moot.