Opinion ID: 6330514
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Heading: Dismissal of Petition for Review

Text: We begin with the petition for review. The clerk of court is authorized to dismiss an appeal if the docketing fee is not paid when the case is filed or within 14 days after docketing. 7TH CIR. R. 3(b); see also FED. R. APP. P. 3(e) (requiring payment of all required fees when the appeal is filed). Thomann did not tender the docketing fee when he filed the petition for review on November 12, so the case was docketed without payment and the fee was due not later than November 26, 2021. By December 6 the fee remained unpaid, and no motion seeking in forma pauperis status had been filed. So the clerk’s office notified Thomann of the overdue fee and warned that the petition would be dismissed if he failed to pay it or file a motion to proceed in forma pauperis. Three and a half months passed but Thomann neither paid the fee nor moved for in forma pauperis status. On March 24 he belatedly requested an extension of time to March 28, which we granted. To date the fee remains unpaid. On March 30—two days after the much-extended deadline—Thomann submitted a motion for leave to file a late in forma pauperis motion and tendered a boilerplate motion but no affidavit from Camacho-Valdez. The motion does not comply with the requirements of Rule 24(b), which requires an affidavit from the litigant about his financial status (among other inforNo. 21-3112 7 mation). Accordingly, we dismiss the petition for review pursuant to Circuit Rule 3(b).