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10-2799-ag
         Wang v. Holder
                                                                                         BIA
                                                                                 A079 433 133
                           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 15th day of August, two thousand eleven.
 5
 6       PRESENT:
 7                REENA RAGGI,
 8                RICHARD C. WESLEY,
 9                GERARD E. LYNCH,
10                   Circuit Judges.
11       _________________________________________
12
13       SIYUAN WANG,
14                Petitioner,
15
16                        v.                                       10-2799-ag
17                                                                 NAC
18       ERIC H. HOLDER, JR., UNITED STATES
19       ATTORNEY GENERAL,
20                Respondent.
21       _________________________________________
22
23       FOR PETITIONER:                Gary J. Yerman, New York, New York.
24
25       FOR RESPONDENT:                Varuni Nelson, Scott Dunn, Margaret
26                                      M. Kolbe, Assistant United States
27                                      Attorneys; Dione M. Enea, Special
28                                      Assistant United States Attorney, Of
29                                      Counsel; Loretta E. Lynch, United
30                                      States Attorney, Eastern District of
31                                      New York, Brooklyn, New York.
 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

 4   is DENIED.

 5       Petitioner Siyuan Wang, a native and citizen of the

 6   People’s Republic of China, seeks review of the BIA’s June

 7   17, 2010, decision denying his motion to reopen.      In re

 8   Siyuan Wang, No. A079 433 133 (B.I.A. June 17, 2010).     We

 9   assume the parties’ familiarity with the underlying facts

10   and procedural history of the case.

11       The BIA’s denial of Wang’s motion to reopen as untimely

12   was not an abuse of discretion.   See Kaur v. BIA, 413 F.3d

13   232, 233 (2d Cir. 2005).   A motion to reopen generally must

14   be filed no later than 90 days after the date on which the

15   final administrative decision has been rendered in the

16   proceedings sought to be reopened.    8 U.S.C.

17   § 1229a(c)(7)(C)(i); 8 C.F.R. § 1003.2(c)(2).     There is no

18   dispute that Wang’s 2010 motion was untimely, as the final

19   administrative decision was issued in 2004.      See 8 U.S.C.

20   § 1229a(c)(7)(C)(i); 8 C.F.R. § 1003.2(c)(2).     Our review of

21   the record reveals no circumstances that would constitute an

22   exception to the deadline for filing a motion to reopen.

23   See 8 U.S.C. § 1229a(c)(7)(C); 8 C.F.R. § 1003.2(c)(3);

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 1   Rabiu v. INS, 41 F.3d 879, 881-82 (2d Cir. 1994).

 2   Accordingly, we conclude that the BIA did not abuse its

 3   discretion in denying Wang’s motion to reopen as untimely.

 4       In addition to the statutory requirement that a

 5   petitioner must exhaust the categories of relief he seeks,

 6   8 U.S.C. § 1252(d)(1), a petitioner must also raise to the

 7   BIA the specific issues he later raises in this Court.

 8   “Since removal may be improper for any number of reasons,

 9   the mere statement that one is not removable does not serve

10   to raise a specific issue to the IJ.   To preserve a claim,

11   we require petitioner to raise issues to the BIA in order to

12   preserve them for judicial review.’”   Foster v. INS, 376

13   F.3d 75, 78 (2d Cir. 2004) (internal quotation marks and

14   brackets omitted).   While not jurisdictional, this

15   judicially imposed exhaustion requirement is mandatory.     Lin

16   Zhong v. U.S. Dep’t of Justice, 480 F.3d 104, 119-20 (2d

17   Cir. 2007).   Wang contends that he did not knowingly and

18   voluntarily waive his rights over eight years ago when he

19   entered the United States.   Because Wang failed to raise the

20   issue before the agency, and because the government has

21   raised this failure to exhaust, we decline to consider the

22   issue.   See id. at 124 (describing the issue exhaustion

23   requirement as an “affirmative defense subject to waiver.”).

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1       For the foregoing reasons, the petition for review is

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

3   removal that the Court previously granted in this petition

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

5   this petition is DISMISSED as moot.

6                               FOR THE COURT:
7                               Catherine O’Hagan Wolfe, Clerk
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