Case Name: Parlad SINGH, Petitioner, v. Jefferson B. SESSIONS III, Attorney General, Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2017-11-16
Citations: 702 F. App'x 610
Docket Number: No. 15-70138
Parties: Parlad SINGH, Petitioner, v. Jefferson B. SESSIONS III, Attorney General, Respondent.
Judges: Before: RAWLINSON and BYBEE, Circuit Judges, and SMITH, Chief District Judge.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 702
Pages: 610–612

Head Matter:
Parlad SINGH, Petitioner, v. Jefferson B. SESSIONS III, Attorney General, Respondent.
No. 15-70138
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Submitted November 14, 2017 San Francisco, California
Filed November 16, 2017
Christopher John Stender, Esquire, Attorney, Federal Immigration Counselors, AZ, PC, Phoenix, AZ, for Petitioner
OIL, Margaret Anne O’Donnell, Trial Attorney, DOJ—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 BYBEE, Circuit Judges, and SMITH, Chief 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 William E. Smith, Chief United States District Judge for the District of Rhode Island, sitting by designation.

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
Singh applied for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture on the basis of his involvement with the Akali Dal Mann political party in India. An Immigration Judge ("IJ") denied all relief and ordered Singh removed to India. The Board of Immigration Appeals ("the Board") affirmed in a 2008 decision. We granted an unopposed motion to remand to the IJ for a reexamination of his adverse credibility determination. On remand, the IJ reexamined the record, denied all relief, and again ordered Singh removed to India. The Board affirmed again in a 2011 decision. We denied Singh's petition for review, noting that Singh's testimony contradicted his affidavits, and that the IJ gave articulated, specific, and cogent reasons for his credibility findings. Singh v. Holder, 571 Fed.Appx. 576, 576 (9th Cir. 2014). Singh then petitioned the Board to reopen his administrative proceedings. The Board denied the motion as untimely and noted the absence of exceptional circumstances warranting sua sponte reopening. See 8 C.F.R. § 1003.2(c).
Singh now petitions for review of the Board's denial of his motion to reopen. A motion to reopen proceedings must be filed within ninety.days after the final administrative decision was rendered in the proceedings sought to be reopened. 8 C.F.R. § 1003.2(c)(2). Singh has conceded that his motion is untimely. Under the Board's regulations, the ninety-day deadline shall not apply where there is evidence that. circumstances have materially changed in the country of removal, and such evidence was not previously available or could not have been previously presented. 8 C.F.R. § 1003.2(c)(3)(ii). But Singh has not argued that conditions in India have changed in any material way.
Denials of motions to reopen proceedings are reviewed for an abuse of discretion and reversed only if "arbitrary, irrational, or contrary to law." Perez v. Mukasey, 516 F.3d 770, 773 (9th Cir. 2008), On appeal, Singh argues that the Board abused its discretion, because it did not address the merits of his motion or the evidence he presented. The merits of his motion deal only with alleged errors in the Board's 2008 and 2011 decisions. But Singh already appealed the Board's 2008 decision. We vacated it. And he already appealed the Board's 2011 decision. We denied his petition on the merits. Singh, 571 Fed.Appx. at 576. Although Singh may have come up with new arguments, see Brief of Petitioner at 8-24, Singh v. Holder, No. 11-73408 (9th Cir. Mar. 12, 2012) (failing to make the arguments raised here), a motion to reopen proceedings is not a motion to renew a prior petition for review.
Singh also argues that his motion's untimeliness does not strip the Board of jurisdiction, and that the Board should have waived the deadline sua sponte and corrected its 2011 decision. The Board possesses "limited discretionary powers" to reopen proceedings sua sponte at any time. In re Beckford, 22 I. & N. Dec. 1216, 1217-18 (B.I.A. 2000); 8 C.F.R. § 1003.2(a). But that power is exercised only in "exceptional situations," and the burden is on Singh to show that such a situation exists. Beckford, 22 I. & N. Dec. at 1218. Singh has not identified any such situation. The Board did not abuse its discretion in denying Singh's motion as untimely or in failing to waive the deadline sua sponte. The petition is DENIED.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.