Opinion ID: 77583
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Heading: Jurisdiction Over the Denial of Asylum

Text: 15 Pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1158(a)(2)(B), an application for asylum must be filed within one year of entering the United States. However, 8 U.S.C. § 1158(a)(2)(D) allows applications to be untimely in the event of extraordinary circumstances relating to delay in filing the asylum application. See also 8 C.F.R. § 208.4(a)(5) (identifying events that qualify as extraordinary circumstances). 8 U.S.C. § 1158(a)(3) provides that [n]o court shall have jurisdiction to review any determination of the Attorney General under paragraph (2). This Court has decided that this section divests us of jurisdiction to review decisions of whether an alien complied with the one-year time limit, or whether extraordinary circumstances were present to justify untimely filing of the asylum application. Mendoza v. U.S. Attorney Gen., 327 F.3d 1283, 1287 (11th Cir.2003) ( citing Fahim v. U.S. Attorney Gen., 278 F.3d 1216, 1217-18 (11th Cir. 2002)). Thus, regardless of whether Ruiz's application was timely or whether extraordinary circumstances existed, it is not within this Court's jurisdiction to review a denial of asylum on those grounds.