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06-3913-ag
         Lian v. Holder
                                                                                       BIA
                                                                               A077 997 883
                                   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 20 th day of January, two thousand ten.
 5
 6       PRESENT:
 7                PIERRE N. LEVAL,
 8                JOSÉ A. CABRANES,
 9                DEBRA ANN LIVINGSTON,
10                         Circuit Judges.
11       _______________________________________
12
13       YIN TING LIAN,
14                Petitioner,
15
16                            v.                                06-3913-ag
17                                                              NAC
18
19       ERIC H. HOLDER, Jr., U.S. ATTORNEY
20       GENERAL, 1
21                  Respondent.
22       _______________________________________

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                   Pursuant to Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure
             43(c)(2), Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr., is
             automatically substituted for former Attorney General
             Alberto R. Gonzales as respondent in this case.
 1   FOR PETITIONER:         Yee Ling Poon, Robert Duk-Hwan Kim,
 2                           Deborah Niedermeyer, New York, New
 3                           York.
 4
 5   FOR RESPONDENT:         Michael F. Hertz, Acting Assistant
 6                           Attorney General, Richard M. Evans,
 7                           Assistant Director, Virginia Lum,
 8                           Attorney, Office of Immigration
 9                           Litigation, Civil Division, United
10                           States Department of Justice,
11                           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        Petitioner Yin Ting Lian, a native and citizen of the

6    People’s Republic of China, seeks review of a July 25, 2006

7    order of the BIA denying her counseled motion to reconsider.

8    In re Yin Ting Lian, No. A077 997 883 (B.I.A. July 25,

9    2006).   We assume the parties’ familiarity with the

10   underlying facts and procedural history of the case.

11       The BIA did not abuse its discretion in denying Lian’s

12   motion to reconsider.   See Kaur v. BIA, 413 F.3d 232, 233

13   (2d Cir. 2005) (per curiam); Jin Ming Liu v. Gonzales, 439

14   F.3d 109, 111 (2d Cir. 2006).       A motion to reconsider must

15   be filed with the BIA within 30 days after the mailing of

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1    the BIA decision being challenged.       8 U.S.C.

2    § 1229a(a)(c)(6); 8 C.F.R. § 1003.2(b)(2).          There is no

3    exception to the filing deadline for such motions.          Matter

4    of J-J-, 21 I.&N. Dec. 976, 978 (B.I.A. 1997).          It is

5    undisputed that Lian’s motion to reconsider was untimely.

6    However, as the Government asserts, Lian fails to challenge

7    the BIA’s denial of her motion to reconsider as untimely.

8    Because addressing this argument does not appear to be

9    necessary to avoid manifest injustice, we deem any such

10   argument waived.       Yueqing Zhang v. Gonzales, 426 F.3d 540,

11   541 n.1, 545 n.7 (2d Cir. 2005).       Lian’s waiver of the BIA’s

12   finding that her motion was untimely is dispositive of the

13   petition for review. 2

14       For the foregoing reasons, the petition for review is

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

16   removal that the Court previously granted in this petition

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

               2
             Rather than challenging the BIA’s denial of her
       motion to reconsider, Lian argues at length that she was
       entitled to file a successive asylum application pursuant
       to 8 U.S.C. § 1158(a)(2)(D) and that she was eligible for
       relief based on the birth of her U.S. citizen children.
       Even if we were to reach these arguments, they are
       largely foreclosed by Yuen Jin v. Mukasey, 538 F.3d 143
       (2d Cir. 2008) and Jian Hui Shao v. Mukasey, 546 F.3d 138
       (2d Cir. 2008).

                                       3
1    this petition is DISMISSED as moot. Any pending request for

2    oral argument in this petition is DENIED in accordance with

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

 4   Circuit Local Rule 34(b).
 5
 6                               FOR THE COURT:
 7                               Catherine O’Hagan Wolfe, Clerk
 8
 9
10                               By:____________________________
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