Case Name: Jonny Benjamin ALVARADO-SOLIS, Petitioner, v. Alberto R. GONZALES, U.S. Attorney General, Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2007-02-02
Citations: 215 F. App'x 369
Docket Number: No. 06-60204
Parties: Jonny Benjamin ALVARADO-SOLIS, Petitioner, v. Alberto R. GONZALES, U.S. Attorney General, Respondent.
Judges: Before DeMOSS, STEWART, and PRADO, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 215
Pages: 369–370

Head Matter:
Jonny Benjamin ALVARADO-SOLIS, Petitioner, v. Alberto R. GONZALES, U.S. Attorney General, Respondent.
No. 06-60204
Summary Calendar.
United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.
Feb. 2, 2007.
Jonny Benjamin Alvarado-Solis, pro se.
Thomas Ward Hussey, Director, U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, E.M. Trominski, District Director, U.S. Immigration & Naturalization Service District, Directors Office, Harlingen, TX, Caryl G. Thompson, U.S. Immigration & Naturalization Service District, Directors Office, New Orleans, LA, for Respondent.
Alberto R. Gonzales, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, pro se.
Before DeMOSS, STEWART, and PRADO, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM:
Jonny Benjamin Alvarado-Solis (Alvarado) seeks a petition for review of the order of the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) dismissing his appeal from the Immigration Judge's denial of his motion to reopen to rescind his 1996 in absentia order of deportation or, alternatively, to adjust status. The BIA's decision is reviewed for an abuse of discretion. Lara v. Trominski, 216 F.3d 487, 496 (5th Cir. 2000).
Alvarado urges that the motion to reopen to rescind the 1996 in absentia deportation order should have been granted because he never received notice of the deportation hearing. Substantial evidence supports the BIA's finding that notice of the deportation hearing was mailed by certified mail to the address Alvarado provided and, thus, that the notice was sufficient. See 8 U.S.C. § 1252b(c)(1) and (c)(3)(repealed Sept. 30, 1996); Matter of Grijalva, 21 I. & N. Dec. 27, 36-38 (BIA 1995). Accordingly, the BIA did not abuse its discretion in affirming the denial of the motion to reopen to rescind the 1996 in absentia deportation order. Lara, 216 F.3d at 496.
Alvarado next contends that the BIA erred in upholding the denial of his motion to reopen to adjust status based on relief that was not previously available, specifically, his wife's recently approved I-140 visa application. He challenges the BIA's determination that the motion to reopen to adjust status was untimely under 8 C.F.R. § 1003.23 on the ground that he never received notice of the deportation hearing. The argument fails for the reason previously stated.
The petition for review is DENIED.
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.