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12-1772
     Guan v. Lynch
                                                                                       BIA
                                                                               A072 765 896

                          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 for
 2   the Second Circuit, held at the Thurgood Marshall United States
 3   Courthouse, 40 Foley Square, in the City of New York, on the
 4   10th day of May, two thousand sixteen.
 5
 6   PRESENT:
 7            ROBERT D. SACK,
 8            GERARD E. LYNCH,
 9            CHRISTOPHER F. DRONEY,
10                 Circuit Judges.
11   _____________________________________
12
13   SHI HUI GUAN,
14            Petitioner,
15
16                   v.                                              12-1772
17                                                                   NAC
18   LORETTA E. LYNCH, UNITED STATES
19   ATTORNEY GENERAL,
20            Respondent.
21   _____________________________________
22
23   FOR PETITIONER:                     Ning Ye, Flushing, New York.
24
25   FOR RESPONDENT:                     Stuart F. Delery, Acting Assistant
26                                       Attorney General; Blair T. O’Connor,
27                                       Assistant Director; Jane T.
28                                       Schaffner, Trial Attorney, Office of
29                                       Immigration Litigation, United
30                                       States Department of Justice,
31                                       Washington, D.C.
1          UPON DUE CONSIDERATION of this petition for review of a

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

3    ORDERED, ADJUDGED, AND DECREED that the petition for review is

4    DENIED.

5          Petitioner Shi Hui Guan, a native and citizen of the

6    People’s Republic of China, seeks review of a March 30, 2012,

7    decision of the BIA, denying his motion to reopen.         In re Shi

8    Hui Guan, No. A072 765 896 (B.I.A. Mar. 30, 2012).         We assume

9    the   parties’   familiarity   with   the   underlying    facts   and

10   procedural history in this case.

11         Our review is limited to the BIA’s denial of Guan’s motion

12   to reopen, and we do not consider his challenges to the agency’s

13   underlying adverse credibility determination.            See Ke Zhen

14   Zhao v. U.S. Dep’t of Justice, 265 F.3d 83, 89-90 (2d Cir. 2001).

15   The applicable standards of review are well established.          See

16   Jian Hui Shao v. Mukasey, 546 F.3d 138, 168-69 (2d Cir. 2008).

17         The BIA did not abuse its discretion in denying Guan’s

18   motion to reopen because he failed to demonstrate his prima

19   facie eligibility for relief.     See INS v. Abudu, 485 U.S. 94,

20   104 (1988).      In light of the agency’s underlying adverse

21   credibility determination, the BIA reasonably declined to

22   credit Guan’s affidavit, see Qin Wen Zheng v. Gonzales, 500 F.3d
23   143, 147 (2d Cir. 2007), which was the only evidence provided
1    to support his assertion that he has practiced Falun Gong in

2    the United States since 1998 even though he claimed that he meets

3    weekly with other practitioners (who could have corroborated

4    his claims).   Furthermore, the BIA did not err in finding that

5    Guan failed to establish his prima facie eligibility for relief

6    because he did not submit any evidence showing that the Chinese

7    government was aware of or likely to become aware of his

8    purported practice of Falun Gong.       See Hongsheng Leng v.

9    Mukasey, 528 F.3d 135, 143 (2d Cir. 2008).

10       Accordingly, the BIA did not abuse its discretion in

11   denying Guan’s motion to reopen.   See Abudu, 485 U.S. at 104-05;

12   see also Jian Hui Shao, 546 F.3d at 168.     We do not consider

13   Guan’s remaining arguments as he did not exhaust them before

14   the BIA.   See Lin Zhong v. U.S. Dep’t of Justice, 480 F.3d 104,

15   119-22 (2d Cir. 2007).

16       For the foregoing reasons, the petition for review is

17   DENIED.    As we have completed our review, the stay of removal

18   that the Court previously granted in this petition is VACATED.

19
20                                 FOR THE COURT:
21                                 Catherine O’Hagan Wolfe, Clerk