Case Name: Faruq RASID, 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: 2016-02-26
Citations: 634 F. App'x 339
Docket Number: No. 14-4124-ag
Parties: Faruq RASID, Petitioner, v. Loretta E. LYNCH, United States Attorney General, Respondent.
Judges: PRESENT: GUIDO CALABRESI, REENA RAGGI and SUSAN L. CARNEY, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 634
Pages: 339–341

Head Matter:
Faruq RASID, Petitioner, v. Loretta E. LYNCH, United States Attorney General, Respondent.
No. 14-4124-ag.
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.
Feb. 26, 2016.
Anthony 0. Egbase; Victoria T. Orafa, A.O.E. Law & Associates, Inc., Los Ange-les, CA, for Petitioner,
Benjamin C. Mizer, Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General; Alison Marie Igoe, Senior Litigation Counsel; Daniel I. Smulow, Trial Attorney, Office of Immigration Litigation, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Respondent.
PRESENT: GUIDO CALABRESI, REENA RAGGI and SUSAN L. CARNEY, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
SUMMARY ORDER
Petitioner Faruq Rasid, a native and citizen of Bangladesh, seeks review of an October 7, 2014, decision of the BIA denying Rasid's third motion to reopen removal proceedings. In re Faruq Rasid, No. [ AXXX XXX XXX ] (B.I.A. Oct. 7, 2014). We assume the parties' familiarity with the underlying facts and procedural history in this case.
We review the BIA's denial of a motion to reopen for abuse of discretion. See Kaur v. BIA, 413 F.3d 232, 233 (2d Cir. 2005). An alien seeking to reopen proceedings may file one motion to reopen no later than 90 days after the date on which the final administrative decision was rendered. 8 U.S.C. § 1229a(c)(7)(C)(i); 8 C.F.R. § 1003.2(c)(2). There is no dispute that Rasid's motion was otherwise untimely and number-barred because his order of removal became administratively final when he failed voluntarily to depart in January 2001, and it was his third such motion.
In certain circumstances, the time period for filing a motion to reopen may be equitably tolled upon an alien's demonstration of ineffective assistance of counsel. See Rashid v. Mukasey, 533 F.3d 127, 130 (2d Cir.2008). Nonetheless, we discern no abuse of discretion in the BIA's refusal to consider Rasid's ineffective assistance claim. Indeed, we previously rejected this claim on the merits in reviewing Rasid's petition for review of the BIA's denial of his first motion to reopen. See Order, Rasid v. Holder, No. 12-4110-ag, Dkt. No. 52. We dismissed the petition as frivolous, concluding that the BIA had properly denied Rasid's ineffective assistance claim for failure to exercise due diligence. See id.
We adhere to this decision because Ra-sid has failed to raise new arguments or to present new evidence either to the BIA or this Court. See Johnson v. Holder, 564 F.3d 95, 99 (2d Cir.2009) (stating that law of the case doctrine requires adherence to prior decision on issue in subsequent stage of same case). A motion to reopen is not a vehicle to present previously rejected arguments on the basis of previously available evidence. See 8 C.F.R. § 1003.2(e) (requiring that motion to reopen be based on new and previously unavailable evidence).
Rasid also argues that the BIA erred in declining to reopen proceedings sua sponte because of the exceptional hardship his family would suffer if he is removed. The claim fails because we lack jurisdiction to review the BIA's decision not to reopen proceedings sua sponte, as this decision is "entirely discretionary." Ali v. Gonzales, 448 F.3d 515, 518 (2d Cir.2006). Kucana v. Holder, 558 U.S. 233, 130 S.Ct. 827, 175 L.Ed.2d 694 (2010), cited by Rasid, is not to the contrary, as the Supreme Court there stated that it "express[ed] no opinion on whether federal courts may review the Board's decision not to reopen removal proceedings sua sponte," id. at 251 n. 18, 130 S.Ct. 827. Nor is there any indication here that the BIA "may have declined to exercise its sua sponte authority because it misperceived the legal background and thought, incorrectly, that a reopening would necessarily fail," such that remand to the Agency for reconsideration in view of the correct law would be appropriate. Mahmood v. Holder, 570 F.3d 466, 469 (2d Cir.2009).
Accordingly, the petition for review is DENIED. As we have completed our review, any stay of removal that the Court previously granted in this petition is VACATED, and any pending motion for a stay of removal in this petition is 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).