Case Name: Tenzin PASANG, Petitioner, v. Jefferson B. SESSIONS III, United States Attorney General, Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2017-09-08
Citations: 697 F. App'x 56
Docket Number: 16-2209
Parties: Tenzin PASANG, Petitioner, v. Jefferson B. SESSIONS III, United States Attorney General, Respondent.
Judges: PRESENT: BARRINGTON D. PARKER, DEBRA ANN LIVINGSTON, GERARD E. LYNCH, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 697
Pages: 56–57

Head Matter:
Tenzin PASANG, Petitioner, v. Jefferson B. SESSIONS III, United States Attorney General, Respondent.
16-2209
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.
September 8, 2017
FOR PETITIONER: Stuart Altman, New York, NY.
FOR RESPONDENT: Chad A. Readier, Acting Assistant Attorney General; Terri J. Scadron, Assistant Director; Meadow Platt, Trial Attorney, Office of Immigration Litigation, United States Department of Justice, Washington, DC.
PRESENT: BARRINGTON D. PARKER, DEBRA ANN LIVINGSTON, GERARD E. LYNCH, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
SUMMARY ORDER
Petitioner Tenzin Pasang, a native and citizen of the People's Republic of China, seeks review of a June 3, 2016, decision of the BIA affirming a March 24, 2015, decision of an Immigration Judge ("IJ") pre-termitting his asylum application as untimely. In re Tenzin Pasang, No. [ AXXX XXX XXX ] (B.I.A. June 3, 2016), aff'g No. [ AXXX XXX XXX ] (Immig. Ct. N.Y. City Mar. 24, 2015). We assume the parties' familiarity with the underlying facts and procedural history in this case.
We lack jurisdiction to review the agency's pretermission of Pasang's asylum application as untimely because he does not raise a colorable constitutional claim or question of law. See 8 U.S.C. § 1158(a)(3), 1252(a)(2)(D). He failed to exhaust his argument that changed circumstances in China and India excused the untimely filing of his application. See Lin Zhong v. U.S. Dep't of Justice, 480 F.3d 104, 121-22 (2d Cir. 2007). And, contrary to Pasang's contention, the agency did not find the regulatory list of extraordinary circumstances exhaustive, but rather noted that Pasang's claim that he waited longer than one year to apply for asylum on the advice of his religious tour guide did not fall within that list and further concluded that his choice to delay based on that advice did not otherwise constitute extraordinary circumstances. Accordingly, Pasang has not raised a constitutional claim or question of law over which we may exercise jurisdiction. See 8 U.S.C. § 1158(a)(3), 1252(a)(2)(D).
Pasang abandons any claim that he should have been granted asylum or withholding of removal as to India. See Yueqing Zhang v. Gonzales, 426 F.3d 540, 541 n.1, 545 n.7 (2d Cir. 2005) (holding that petitioner abandoned issues and claims not sufficiently raised in his brief).
For the foregoing reasons, the petition for review is DISMISSED.