Case Name: Marie Ives GREGOIRE, Petitioner v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., U.S. Attorney General, Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2011-04-08
Citations: 421 F. App'x 432
Docket Number: No. 09-60254
Parties: Marie Ives GREGOIRE, Petitioner v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., U.S. Attorney General, Respondent.
Judges: Before REAVLEY, JOLLY, and STEWART, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 421
Pages: 432–433

Head Matter:
Marie Ives GREGOIRE, Petitioner v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., U.S. Attorney General, Respondent.
No. 09-60254.
United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.
April 8, 2011.
Raed Gonzalez, Esq., Senior Attorney, Garza & Associates, Bellaire, TX, Bruce James Godzina, Foster Quan, L.L.P., Houston, TX, for Petitioner.
Luis Enrique Perez, Senior Litigation Counsel, Tangerlia Cox, John Clifford Cunningham, I, Esq., Senior Litigation Counsel, Claire L. Workman, Trial Attorney, U.S. Department of Justice Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, for Respondent.
Before REAVLEY, JOLLY, and STEWART, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM:
On March 4, 2011, we denied Marie Gre-goire's petition for review of a final order of deportation. After the decision was issued, the parties delinquently brought to our attention a November 17, 2010 order in which the BIA, after granting Gre-goire's motion to reopen, remanded her petition for further proceedings before an Immigration Judge. The parties filed a joint motion to vacate the opinion and to dismiss the petitions for review for lack of jurisdiction. For the reasons outlined below we VACATE our opinion and DISMISS the petitions for review for lack of jurisdiction.
On March 12, 2009, the BIA issued a final order of deportation, which held that Gregoire was not eligible for adjustment of her status (the "March 12 Order"). On the same day that the BIA issued its order, Gregoire filed a motion for reconsideration. She also filed a Petition for Review with this court, which was held in abeyance pending her petition to reopen. In a December 18, 2009 order, the BIA denied Gregoire's motion. Gregoire filed an additional Petition for Review with this court on January 6, 2010. Gregoire filed another motion to reopen with the BIA on April 9, 2010. We denied Gregoire's request to hold these appeals in abeyance pending the BIA's disposition of her April 9 motion.
On November 17, 2010, the BIA granted Gregoire's motion to reopen and remanded Gregoire's petition to an Immigration Judge (the "November 17 Order"). In the November 17 Order, the BIA reopened the proceedings after noting the totality of circumstances in the respondent's unopposed motion, including the continuing devastation in Haiti. The BIA remanded the record to the Immigration Judge to provide Gregoire with the opportunity to pursue an application for adjustment of status based on the approved immediate relative visa filed on her behalf by her husband, who is a United State citizen. The parties failed to alert this court of the BIA's November 17 Order until March 7, 2011. In the meantime, however, on March 4, 2011, we had issued an opinion deciding the issues contained in the March 12, 2009 Order.
On March 7, 2011, the parties filed a joint motion to vacate our opinion and to dismiss Gregoire's petitions for review for lack of jurisdiction. They contended that the November 17 Order effectively vacated the March 12 Order.
This unusual procedural posture is strikingly similar to the recently-decided case Espinal v. Holder, 636 F.3d 703 (5th Cir.2011). In Espinal we joined the majority of circuits in holding that the grant of a motion for reconsideration and issuance of a subsequent BIA order do not necessarily render the initial removal order non-final or moot for the purpose of a reviewing court. Id. at 704-706. But, the retention of jurisdiction by the appellate court is premised on the "BIA's grant of reconsideration [ ] not materially changing] or effectively vacating] the order under review." Id. at 706.
It is clear that the BIA's grant of reconsideration of Gregoire's claim materially changed the order. The November 17 Order was a final order of deportation, whereas the March 12 Order remanded the case to the Immigration Judge for further proceedings. Accordingly, because the BIA's grant of reconsideration materially changed the order reviewed in our March 4 opinion, which we interpret to mean under the applicable precedents that we lack jurisdiction because the March 12 Order that we reviewed was not a final order, the opinion is therefore WITHDRAWN, the judgment is VACATED and Gregoire's petitions for review are DISMISSED.
Pursuant to 5th Cir. R. 47.5, the court has determined that this opinion should not be published and is not precedent except under the limited circumstances set forth in 5th Cir. R. 47.5.4.