Opinion ID: 1442874
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: Jiao Fang Chen

Text: Petitioner Jiao Fang Chen entered the United States in August 1999 as a non-immigrant visitor without a valid entry document. She was subsequently placed in removal proceedings. In June 2000, she filed applications for asylum, withholding of deportation, and CAT relief, claiming that family planning authorities in China forcibly inserted an IUD after the birth of her first child in 1995, that she had secretly removed it, and that she left China to avoid reinsertion of the device. In June 2000, Chen gave birth to her second child, and at her asylum hearing, Chen claimed that she would be forcibly sterilized if returned to China, because she now had more than one child. The IJ denied Chen's claims and ordered her removed after making an adverse credibility determination and finding that Chen had not adduced sufficient persuasive evidence of systematic forced sterilization under China's one-child policy. In April 2002, the BIA summarily affirmed. Chen did not file a petition for review of that decision. In August 2005, Chen filed a motion to reopen and a new asylum application with the BIA, arguing that her untimely filing should be excused because (1) she was now pregnant with her third child and would definitely be unable to avoid sterilization, and (2) the enforcement of China's family planning laws had become harsher and more widespread since 2002. The BIA denied the motion as untimely, noting that Chen's third pregnancy was not a change arising in China, that changed personal circumstances did not excuse her late filing, and that no change in China's enforcement policy had occurred. The BIA did not address Chen's new asylum application. Chen now petitions for review of that decision.