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Date Created: 2012-07-06 20:01:32+00
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                             NOT FOR PUBLICATION                            JUL 06 2012

                                                                        MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
                     UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS                      U .S. C O U R T OF APPE ALS

                             FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

BHADUR SINGH,                                    No. 10-71355

               Petitioner,                       Agency No. A078-659-981

  v.
                                                 MEMORANDUM *
ERIC H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General,

               Respondent.

                      On Petition for Review of an Order of the
                          Board of Immigration Appeals

                             Submitted June 26, 2012 **

Before:        SCHROEDER, HAWKINS, and GOULD, Circuit Judges.

       Bhadur Singh, a native and citizen of India, petitions for review of the Board

of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) order denying his motion to reopen. We have

jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252. We review for abuse of discretion the denial of

          *
             This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent
except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.
          **
             The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision
without oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2).
a motion to reopen. Najmabadi v. Holder, 597 F.3d 983, 986 (9th Cir. 2010). We

deny the petition for review.

      The BIA did not abuse its discretion in denying Singh’s untimely motion to

reopen where the motion was filed over five and a half years after the agency’s

final order, see 8 C.F.R. § 1003.2(c)(2), and Singh failed to establish changed

circumstances in India to qualify for the regulatory exception to the time limitation.

See 8 C.F.R. § 1003.2(c)(3)(ii); Najmabadi, 597 F.3d at 987-90.

      Additionally, we decline to consider Singh’s challenge to the immigration

judge’s adverse credibility finding because this court already decided the issue in

Singh v. Mukasey, 305 Fed. Appx. 404 (9th Cir. 2008). See Merritt v. Mackey, 932

F.2d 1317, 1320 (9th Cir. 2001) (explaining that under the “law of the case

doctrine,” one panel of an appellate court will not reconsider questions which

another panel has decided on a prior appeal in the same case).

      In light of these conclusions, we need not address Singh’s remaining

contentions.

      PETITION FOR REVIEW DENIED.

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