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Case: 23-60314        Document: 00517021968             Page: 1      Date Filed: 01/04/2024

             United States Court of Appeals
                  for the Fifth Circuit                                          United States Court of Appeals
                                                                                          Fifth Circuit
                                     ____________                                       FILED
                                                                                     January 4, 2024
                                      No. 23-60314
                                    Summary Calendar                                 Lyle W. Cayce
                                    ____________                                          Clerk

   Soeli De Almeida Feitosa,

                                                                                Petitioner,

                                            versus

   Merrick Garland, U.S. Attorney General,

                                                                               Respondent.
                     ______________________________

                        Petition for Review of an Order of the
                            Board of Immigration Appeals
                              Agency No. A096 191 845
                     ______________________________

   Before Higginbotham, Stewart, and Southwick, Circuit Judges.
   Per Curiam: *
         Soeli De Almeida Feitosa, a native and citizen of Brazil, petitions this
   court for review of an order of the Board of Immigration Appeals denying her
   second motion to reopen and denying her request for sua sponte reopening.
         Aside from an exception inapplicable in the instant case, an alien may
   file only one motion to reopen. 8 U.S.C. § 1229a(c)(7)(A),(C)(iv); 8 C.F.R.

         _____________________
         *
             This opinion is not designated for publication. See 5th Cir. R. 47.5.
Case: 23-60314      Document: 00517021968          Page: 2   Date Filed: 01/04/2024

                                    No. 23-60314

   § 1003.23(b)(4)(ii); see Dije v. Garland, 39 F.4th 280, 283 (5th Cir. 2022).
   (“The INA first lays out the number bar: Petitioners generally get one and
   only one motion to reopen. Then the statute creates one and only one
   exception.”) (internal citation omitted). Petitioner does not claim she is
   eligible for the statutory exception. See 8 U.S.C. § 1229a(c)(iv).
   Consequently, insofar as Feitosa petitions for review of the denial of her
   second motion to reopen, the petition is DENIED because the motion was
   number barred. See Dije, 39 F.4th at 283.
          The decision whether to reopen proceedings sua sponte is a
   discretionary one that this court lacks jurisdiction to review. Qorane v. Barr,
   919 F.3d 904, 911-12 (5th Cir. 2019). Consequently, insofar as Feitosa
   petitions for review of the BIA’s decision not to sua sponte reopen her
   proceedings, the petition is DISMISSED. See id.

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