Case Name: Nodar SKHVITARIDZE, Petitioner, v. John ASHCROFT, Attorney General, Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2005-01-14
Citations: 118 F. App'x 326
Docket Number: No. 03-72611; Agency No. A72-397-741
Parties: Nodar SKHVITARIDZE, Petitioner, v. John ASHCROFT, Attorney General, Respondent.
Judges: Before BEEZER, HALL and SILVERMAN, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 118
Pages: 326–327

Head Matter:
Nodar SKHVITARIDZE, Petitioner, v. John ASHCROFT, Attorney General, Respondent.
No. 03-72611.
Agency No. [ AXX-XXX-XXX ].
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Submitted Jan. 10, 2005.
Decided Jan. 14, 2005.
Law Offices of Kaiser & Capeci, San Francisco, CA, for Petitioner.
Richard M. Evans, Esq., DOJ — U.S. Department of Justice Civil Div./Offiee of Immigration Lit., William K. Olivier, U.S. Department of Justice Civil Division, Washington, DC, for Respondent.
Before BEEZER, HALL and SILVERMAN, Circuit Judges.
The panel unanimously finds this case suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
Nodar Skhvitaridze filed his petition for review on July 15, 2003, more than ten months after the Board of Immigration Appeals ("BIA") issued its decision on August 30, 2002. We dismiss the petition for lack of jurisdiction.
Relying on Salta v. INS, 314 F.3d 1076 (9th Cir.2002), Skhvitaridze contends that his sworn affidavit that he did not receive notice of the BIA's decision is sufficient to toll the deadline for filing a petition for review. This contention is unconvincing. Salta addressed when an in absentia order of removal may be rescinded pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1229a(b)(5)(C) because, an alien did not receive notice of the removal hearing, it did not address the deadline for filing petitions for review in this Court. See Salta, 314 F.3d at 1078. That time limit is mandatory and jurisdictional and cannot be tolled. See Singh v. INS, 315 F.3d 1186, 1188 (9th Cir.2003) (citation omitted) (recognizing that the time for filing begins to run when the BIA mails its decision to the petitioner's address of record).
PETITION FOR REVIEW DISMISSED.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and may not be cited to or by the courts of this circuit except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.