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09-3543-ag
         Kosasih v. Holder
                                                                                       BIA
                                                                               A097 849 104

                              UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                                  FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT

                                    SUMMARY ORDER
     RULINGS BY SUMMARY ORDER DO NOT HAVE PRECEDENTIAL EFFECT. CITATION TO A SUMMARY ORDER
     FILED ON OR AFTER JANUARY 1, 2007, IS PERMITTED AND IS GOVERNED BY FEDERAL RULE OF
     APPELLATE PROCEDURE 32.1 AND THIS COURT’S LOCAL RULE 32.1.1. WHEN CITING A SUMMARY ORDER
     IN A DOCUMENT FILED WITH THIS COURT, A PARTY MUST CITE EITHER THE FEDERAL APPENDIX OR AN
     ELECTRONIC DATABASE (WITH THE NOTATION “SUMMARY ORDER”). A PARTY CITING A SUMMARY
     ORDER MUST SERVE A COPY OF IT ON ANY PARTY NOT REPRESENTED BY COUNSEL.

 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 3 rd day of March, two thousand ten.
 5
 6       PRESENT:
 7                JOSÉ A. CABRANES,
 8                PETER W. HALL,
 9                GERARD E. LYNCH,
10                   Circuit Judges.
11       _____________________________________
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13       THERESIA KOSASIH,
14                Petitioner,
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16                           v.                                 09-3543-ag
17                                                              NAC
18       ERIC H. HOLDER, JR.,
19       UNITED STATES ATTORNEY GENERAL,
20                Respondent.
21       _____________________________________
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23       FOR PETITIONER:               Matthew J. Archambeault,
24                                     Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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26       FOR RESPONDENT:               Tony West, Assistant Attorney
27                                     General; Linda S. Wernery, Assistant
28                                     Director; Kerry A. Monaco, Trial
29                                     Attorney, Office of Immigration
30                                     Litigation, Civil Division, United
31                                     States Department of Justice,
32                                     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        Theresia Kosasih, a native and citizen of Indonesia,

6    seeks review of a July 21, 2009, order of the BIA denying

7    her motion to reissue.     In re Theresia Kosasih, No. A097 849

8    104 (B.I.A. July 21, 2009).     We assume the parties’

9    familiarity with the underlying facts and procedural history

10   of this case.

11       We review the agency’s denial of a motion to reissue

12   for abuse of discretion.     See Ping Chen v. U.S. Att’y Gen.,

13   502 F.3d 73, 75 (2d Cir. 2007).     As the Government argues,

14   this case is controlled by Ping Chen.       In that case, the

15   applicant asked the BIA to reissue its decision because she

16   allegedly did not receive it or even learn of it for several

17   months after its issuance.     Id. at 74.    The BIA denied the

18   motion on the ground that the decision was correctly mailed

19   to the applicant’s address of record.       Id. at 75.   We noted,

20   inter alia, that the record included an order and a cover

21   letter addressed to the petitioner’s correct address, and

22   that although the petitioner and a relative filed affidavits

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1    stating that they had not received the order, the petitioner

2    did not point to any irregularity in the BIA’s records

3    suggesting that service was not actually accomplished.        Id.

4    at 77.    Upholding the BIA’s decision, we held that, “once

5    the BIA has performed its duty of serving the order, the

6    time for appeal and motions to reopen begins to run, even if

7    the order miscarries in the mail or the alien does not

8    receive it for some other reason that is not the BIA’s

9    fault.”     Id. at 76-77.

10       Here, the record similarly includes a cover letter

11   addressed to the petitioner and her attorney at their

12   addresses of record on the day the decision was issued.

13   Although Kosasih, her attorney, and others filed affidavits

14   stating they did not receive the decision, Kosasih admits

15   that “there are no irregularities as to the addresses [on

16   the BIA cover sheets] of either the Petitioner or her

17   counsel.”     On these facts, the BIA’s denial of Kosasih’s

18   motion to reissue on the ground that the BIA had satisfied

19   its obligation to notify the petitioner of the disposition

20   of her case was not an abuse of discretion.     See id. at 77.

21       For the foregoing reasons, the petition for review is

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

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1    removal that the Court previously granted in this petition

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

 3   this petition is DISMISSED as moot.
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 6                              FOR THE COURT:
 7                              Catherine O’Hagan Wolfe, Clerk
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