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Case: 22-60337         Document: 00517025463             Page: 1      Date Filed: 01/08/2024

              United States Court of Appeals
                   for the Fifth Circuit
                                      ____________                              United States Court of Appeals
                                                                                         Fifth Circuit

                                        No. 22-60337
                                                                                       FILED
                                                                                 January 8, 2024
                                      ____________
                                                                                  Lyle W. Cayce
   Pauline Tchuenguia Tamnu,                                                           Clerk

                                                                                 Petitioner,

                                             versus

   Merrick Garland, U.S. Attorney General,

                                                                               Respondent.
                      ______________________________

                     Appeal from the Board of Immigration Appeals
                               Agency No. A213 315 742
                      ______________________________

   Before Duncan and Wilson, Circuit Judges, and Mazzant, District
   Judge. *
   Per Curiam: †
          Pauline Tamnu, a citizen of Cameroon, petitioned for review of the
   Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) June 1, 2022, order dismissing her
   appeal of the Immigration Judge’s (“IJ”) August 5, 2021, decision denying
   Tamnu’s motion to reopen proceedings. After briefing and oral argument
   were completed, Tamnu and the Department of Homeland Security jointly
          _____________________
          *
             United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Texas, sitting by
   designation.
          †
              This opinion is not designated for publication. See 5th Cir. R. 47.5.
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                                   No. 22-60337

   moved the BIA to reopen removal proceedings on September 5, 2023. The
   parties to this appeal informed the court on December 29, 2023, that the BIA
   has granted that motion and remanded to the IJ for further proceedings.
          The BIA’s decision to reopen Tamnu’s removal proceedings
   deprives us of jurisdiction over his petition. See 8 U.S.C. § 1252(a)(1)
   (limiting this court’s jurisdiction to “final order[s] of removal”); see also
   Moreira v. Mukasey, 509 F.3d 709, 712–14 (5th Cir. 2007) (declining to
   construe the alien’s petition “as requesting review of the BIA’s eventual
   dismissal of his appeal” and dismissing the petition absent a final order of
   removal); Koroma v. Holder, 376 F. App’x 427, 427 (5th Cir. 2010)
   (dismissing for lack of jurisdiction after BIA reopened immigration
   proceedings). Therefore, we DISMISS Tamnu’s petition for lack of
   jurisdiction.
                                                               DISMISSED.

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