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                                            UNPUBLISHED

                               UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                                   FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

                                              No. 21-1072

        ORLIN ALEXIS YANEZ-REYES,

                            Petitioner,

                     v.

        MERRICK B. GARLAND, Attorney General,

                            Respondent.

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

        Submitted: February 25, 2022                                      Decided: March 11, 2022

        Before MOTZ and HARRIS, Circuit Judges, and FLOYD, Senior Circuit Judge.

        Petition dismissed by unpublished per curiam opinion.

        ON BRIEF: Njinuwo C. Bayelle, Silver Spring, Maryland, for Petitioner. Brian Boynton,
        Acting Assistant Attorney General, Mary Jane Candaux, Assistant Director, Stephen Finn,
        Trial Attorney, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, UNITED STATES
        DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, Washington, D.C., for Respondent.

        Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.
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        PER CURIAM:

               Orlin Alexis Yanez-Reyes, a native and citizen of Honduras, petitions for review of

        an order of the Board of Immigration Appeals (Board) affirming, without opinion, the

        Immigration Judge’s denial of his applications for asylum, withholding of removal, and

        protection under the Convention Against Torture. The Board’s decision was issued on

        December 15, 2020. Yanez-Reyes had 30 days from that date, or until Thursday, January

        14, 2021, to timely file a petition for review in this court. See 8 U.S.C. § 1252(b)(1). This

        time period is “jurisdictional in nature and must be construed with strict fidelity to [its]

        terms.” Stone v. INS, 514 U.S. 386, 405 (1995). It is “not subject to equitable tolling.” Id.

        Yanez-Reyes’ petition for review was filed on Friday, January 15, 2021, one day after the

        filing deadline.

               Accordingly, we dismiss the untimely petition for review for lack of jurisdiction.

        We dispense with oral argument because the facts and legal contentions are adequately

        presented in the materials before this court and argument would not aid the decisional

        process.

                                                                           PETITION DISMISSED

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