Case Name: Ma Isabel ORTEGA-PEREZ, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2012-12-07
Citations: 491 F. App'x 853
Docket Number: No. 09-73220
Parties: Ma Isabel ORTEGA-PEREZ, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
Judges: Before BERZON and IKUTA, Circuit Judges, and ZIPPS, District Judge.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 491
Pages: 853–854

Head Matter:
Ma Isabel ORTEGA-PEREZ, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
No. 09-73220.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Submitted Dec. 5, 2012.
Filed Dec. 7, 2012.
Nikhil M. Shah, I, Esquire, General, Law Offices of Nikhil M. Shah, Los Ange-les, CA, for Petitioner.
Oil, Annette Marie Wietecha, Trial, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, Chief Counsel Ice, Office of the Chief Counsel Department of Homeland Security, San Francisco, CA, for Respondent.
Before BERZON and IKUTA, Circuit Judges, and ZIPPS, District Judge.
The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).
The Honorable Jennifer G. Zipps, District Judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona, sitting by designation.

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
Ma Isabel Ortega-Perez, a native and citizen of Mexico, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals' order dismissing her appeal of an immigration judge's denial of her motion to reopen removal proceedings conducted in absentia based on ineffective assistance of counsel. We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252(a)(2)(D) (allowing for judicial re view where motion to reopen contains a constitutional claim or a question of law). We review the denial of a motion to reopen for abuse of discretion, Singh v. Gonzales, 491 F.3d 1090, 1095 (9th Cir.2007), and we deny the petition for review.
The agency did not abuse its discretion in denying Ortega-Perez's motion to reopen as untimely because the motion was filed more than nine years after the issuance of the September 8, 1998 in absentia order, see 8 C.F.R. § 1003.23(b)(4)(ii), and Ortega-Perez failed to establish that she acted with the due diligence required to warrant equitable tolling of the 180-day filing deadline, see Iturribarria v. INS, 321 F.3d 889, 897 (9th Cir.2003) (equitable tolling is available to petitioner who is prevented from filing "because of deception, fraud, or error" and exercises due diligence in discovering such circumstances).
PETITION FOR REVIEW DENIED.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.