Case Name: YU FENG PAN, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., U.S. Attorney General, Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2010-09-03
Citations: 391 F. App'x 927
Docket Number: No. 09-38008-ag
Parties: YU FENG PAN, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., U.S. Attorney General, Respondent.
Judges: PRESENT: ROGER J. MINER, GUIDO CALABRESI, DEBRA ANN LIVINGSTON, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 391
Pages: 927–929

Head Matter:
YU FENG PAN, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., U.S. Attorney General, Respondent.
No. 09-38008-ag.
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.
Sept. 3, 2010.
Theodore N. Cox, New York, NY, for Petitioner.
Tony West, Assistant Attorney General, Michelle G. Latour, Assistant Director, R. Alexander Goring, Trial Attorney, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Respondent.
PRESENT: ROGER J. MINER, GUIDO CALABRESI, DEBRA ANN LIVINGSTON, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
SUMMARY ORDER
Yu Feng Pan, a native and citizen of the People's Republic of China, seeks review of an August 17, 2009 order of the BIA denying her motion to reopen her removal proceedings. In re Pan, No. [ AXXX XXX XXX ] (B.I.A. Aug. 17, 2009). We assume the parties' familiarity with the underlying facts and procedural history of the case.
We review the BIA's denial of a motion to reopen for abuse of discretion. See Ali v. Gonzales, 448 F.3d 515, 517 (2d Cir.2006). An alien who has been ordered removed may file one motion to reopen but must do so within 90 days of the final administrative decision. 8 U.S.C. § 1229a(c)(7). Here, the BIA properly denied Pan's motion to reopen as untimely and number-barred because she filed it more than six years after the entry of her December 2002 final order of removal, and it was the second motion to reopen that she filed with the BIA. See id.; 8 C.F.R. § 1003.2(c)(2).
Although the time and number limitations may be excused when the movant alleges changed country conditions, 8 U.S.C. § 1229a(c)(7)(C)(ii), the BIA reasonably found that the evidence Pan submitted failed to demonstrate that country conditions in China had changed since her merits hearing, at which she did not appear and was ordered removed in absen-tia. Indeed, the BIA may deny a motion to reopen if the movant has not introduced previously unavailable, material evidence. INS v. Abudu, 485 U.S. 94, 104-05, 108 S.Ct. 904, 99 L.Ed.2d 90 (1988). As the BIA found, although the evidence Pan submitted was previously unavailable, it was not material because it did not compare the current conditions in China with the conditions that existed for Christians at the time of Pan's hearing. See Matter of S-Y-G-, 24 I. & N. Dec. 247, 253 (B.I.A.2007) (finding that "[i]n determining whether evidence accompanying a motion to reopen demonstrates a material change in country conditions that would justify reopening, we compare the evidence of country conditions submitted with the motion to those that existed at the time of the merits hearing below"); see also Yuen Jin v. Mukasey, 538 F.3d 143, 155 (2d Cir.2008) (holding that the existing legal system does not permit aliens who have been ordered removed "to disregard [those] removal orders and remain in the United States long enough to change their personal circumstances (e.g., by having children or practicing a persecuted religion) and initiate new proceedings via a new asylum application"); Wei Guang Wang v. B.I.A., 437 F.3d 270, 274 (2d Cir.2006) (noting that "apparent gaming of the system in an effort to avoid [removal] is not tolerated by the existing regulatory scheme"). Thus, substantial evidence supports the BIA's conclusion that Pan failed to establish changed country conditions in China. See 8 C.F.R. § 1003.2(c)(2); (c)(3)(h); see also Jian Hui Shao v. Mukasey, 546 F.3d 138, 169 (2d Cir.2008).
Furthermore, a reasonable fact-finder would not be compelled to conclude that the BIA ignored any material evidence. See Wei Guang Wang, 437 F.3d at 275; Xiao Ji Chen v. U.S. Dep't of Justice, 471 F.3d 315, 337 n. 17 (2d Cir.2006). Here, given the BIA's references to the documentation submitted with the motion to reopen, the record demonstrates that the BIA both considered Pan's evidence and made reasonable findings based on the record. See Wei Guang Wang, 437 F.3d at 275 (rejecting the notion that the agency "must expressly parse or refute on the record each individual argument or piece of evidence offered by the petitioner" (internal quotation marks omitted)); see also Xiao Ji Chen, 471 F.3d at 337 n. 17 ("[W]e presume that an IJ has taken into account all of the evidence before him, unless the record compellingly suggests otherwise."). Accordingly, because Pan was required to show changed country conditions in order to obtain reopening of her proceedings, the BIA did not abuse its discretion in denying her motion. See 8 U.S.C. § 1229a(c)(7)(C)(ii).
For the foregoing reasons, 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).