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09-1579-ag
         Ye v. Holder
                                                                                       BIA
                                                                               A073 676 645
                         UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                             FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT

                                    SUMMARY ORDER
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 1            At a stated term of the United States Court of Appeals
 2       for the Second Circuit, held at the Daniel Patrick Moynihan
 3       United States Courthouse, 500 Pearl Street, in the City of
 4       New York, on the 6 th day of July, two thousand ten.
 5
 6       PRESENT:
 7                DENNIS JACOBS,
 8                    Chief Judge,
 9                DEBRA ANN LIVINGSTON,
10                DENNY CHIN,
11                   Circuit Judges.
12       _______________________________________
13
14       LIN YING YE,
15                Petitioner,
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17                      v.                                      09-1579-ag
18                                                              NAC
19       ERIC H. HOLDER, JR., UNITED STATES
20       ATTORNEY GENERAL,
21                Respondent.
22       _______________________________________
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24       FOR PETITIONER:               Oleh R. Tustaniwsky, Brooklyn, New
25                                     York.
26
27       FOR RESPONDENT:               Tony West, Assistant Attorney
28                                     General; Blair T. O’Connor,
29                                     Assistant Director; Ari Nazarov,
30                                     Attorney, Office of Immigration
31                                     Litigation, United States Department
32                                     of Justice, Washington, D.C.
1        UPON DUE CONSIDERATION of this petition for review of a

2    decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”), it is

3    hereby ORDERED, ADJUDGED, AND DECREED, that the petition for

4    review is DENIED.

5        Lin Ying Ye, a native and citizen of the People’s

6    Republic of China, seeks review of a March 17, 2009, order

7    of the BIA denying the third motion to reopen she filed

8    after being found not credible and ordered deported. In re

9    Lin Ying Ye, No. A073 676 645 (B.I.A. Mar. 17, 2009).     We

10   assume the parties’ familiarity with the underlying facts

11   and procedural history of this case.

12       We review the BIA’s denial of Ye’s motion to reopen for

13   abuse of discretion.     Ali v. Gonzales, 448 F.3d 515, 517 (2d

14   Cir. 2006).     An alien can file a single motion to reopen and

15   must do so within 90 days of the final administrative

16   decision.     8 U.S.C. § 1229a(c)(7); 8 C.F.R. § 1003.2(c)(2).

17   However, there is no time or number limitation if the alien

18   establishes materially “changed country conditions arising

19   in the country of nationality.” 8 U.S.C. § 1229a(c)(7) (C)

20   (ii); see also 8 C.F.R. § 1003.2(c)(3)(ii).     Here, the BIA

21   did not abuse its discretion in denying Ye’s motion to

22   reopen, which was indisputably untimely and number-barred.

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1        The BIA did not abuse its discretion in determining

2    that the evidence Ye submitted in support of her motion to

3    reopen is “inadequate to show changed circumstances or

4    conditions in China . . . such that her motion would be

5    excepted from the usual 90-day filing deadline.” First, the

6    BIA reasonably declined to give weight to an unauthenticated

7    document purportedly issued by a village committee in China

8    in light of the IJ’s prior adverse credibility finding.    See

9    Zheng v. Gonzales, 500 F.3d 143, 148 (2d Cir. 2007).

10   Second, the BIA, after considering the remainder of Ye’s

11   evidence, reasonably concluded that Ye failed to “establish

12   prima facie eligibility for asylum, i.e., ‘a realistic

13   chance’ that [s]he will be able to establish eligibility.”

14   Poradisova v. Gonzales, 420 F.3d 70, 78 (2d Cir. 2005).

15       Contrary to Ye’s argument, the record does not reflect

16   a failure by the BIA to consider any of the evidence she

17   submitted.   See Xiao Ji Chen v. U.S. Dep’t of Justice, 471

18 F.3d 315, 338 (2d Cir. 2006); see also Wei Guang Wang v.

19   BIA, 437 F.3d 270, 275 (2d Cir. 2006).   Finally, because Ye

20   presented no evidence in support of her CAT claim separate

21   from the evidence presented in support of her asylum claim

22   (which failed to demonstrate prima facie eligibility for

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1    relief), the BIA did not abuse its discretion in finding her

2    ineligible for CAT relief. See Kaur v. BIA, 413 F.3d 232,

3    233 (2d Cir. 2005) (per curiam).

4        For the foregoing reasons, the petition for review is

5    DENIED.   As we have completed our review, any stay of

6    removal that the Court previously granted in this petition

7    is VACATED, and any pending motion for a stay of removal in

8    this petition is DISMISSED as moot. Any pending request for

9    oral argument in this petition is DENIED in accordance with

10   Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 34(a)(2), and Second

11   Circuit Local Rule 34.1(b).

12                                 FOR THE COURT:
13                                 Catherine O’Hagan Wolfe, Clerk
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