Opinion ID: 3065147
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: In re Liadov

Text: [2] A year after the Oh decision, the BIA expressly addressed and disagreed with it in In re Liadov, 23 I&N Dec. 990 (BIA 2006). Specifically, the BIA stated: The regulations governing appeals to the Board, the statute governing administrative appeals in asylum cases, and the authority of the Supreme Court all 3 In Zhong Guang Sun v. U.S. Department of Justice, 421 F.3d 105, 109-11 (2d Cir. 2005), the Second Circuit agreed with the Oh court that an overnight delivery service’s failure to timely deliver a NOA can constitute an extraordinary circumstance excusing a petitioner’s failure to comply with the thirty-day limit for filing an appeal. The petitioner in Zhong Guang Sun placed his NOA with an overnight delivery service one day before the deadline for filing an appeal. Id. at 106. The Second Circuit stated that a petitioner’s use of an overnight delivery service is recognized as a way of insuring timely delivery and “strongly suggests to us that the failure of such an effort to achieve timely filing may well, indeed, fall within the realm of the ‘extraordinary.’ ” Id. at 111. As a result, the Second Circuit, like the Oh court, remanded the case for the BIA to reconsider the issue. Id. 13982 IRIGOYEN-BRIONES v. HOLDER require that filing deadlines be strictly enforced and thus that appeals be timely filed. Neither the statute nor the regulations grant us the authority to extend the time for filing appeals. We therefore do not agree with the court’s suggestion in Oh v. Gonzales . . . that we have the authority to extend the appeal time. Liadov, 23 I&N Dec. at 993. Importantly, however, the BIA also held that “[w]here a case presents exceptional circumstances, the Board may certify a case to itself under 8 C.F.R. § 1003.1(c)[.]”4 Id.