Opinion ID: 3022392
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: Nicola and Sean

Text: Nicola and Sean were derivative applicants on Sarah’s applications for relief from removal. As derivative applicants, they relied on Sarah’s application for relief. See 8 U.S.C. § 1153(d). When Sarah’s claim became moot, Nicola and Sean were left without the principal alien upon whose application their own status rested. On July 1, 2004, Nicola and Sean filed a motion to reopen their case in order to file independent applications for relief based on the events that were the subject of Sarah’s original application as well as on an assertion that a cousin in Northern Ireland had been attacked and beaten by a gang of Loyalists. On August 3, 2004, the BIA denied the motion to reopen on the basis that it was filed more than 90 days after the November 17, 2003, order of the BIA, denying them asylum. The BIA further held that the motion to reopen did not fall within any of the exceptions to the timely filing of motions to reopen because Nicola and Sean had not demonstrated prima -9- facie eligibility for asylum. See 8 U.S.C. § 1229a(c)(7)(C)(ii). On September 16, 2004, Nicola and Sean filed a petition for review of the BIA’s denial. Because the petition for review was filed more than thirty days after the BIA’s August 4, 2004, final order, the petition was untimely. Thus, we lack jurisdiction to review this decision by the BIA, and we will dismiss Nicola and Sean’s appeals. See 8 U.S.C. § 1252(b)(1). See also Navarro-Miranda v. Ashcroft, 330 F.3d 672, 676 (5th Cir. 2003) (applying the thirty-day deadline of § 1252(b)(1) to a petition for review of a motion to reopen).