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Date Created: 2023-01-28 21:00:18.754144+00
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                                             UNPUBLISHED

                               UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                                   FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

                                               No. 22-1380

        YING LIN; YI LIN,

                             Plaintiffs - Appellants,

                      v.

        CHRISTOPHER M. HEFFRON, Field Office Director for the Charlotte Field Office of the
        United States Citizenship and Immigration Services; MERRICK B. GARLAND, Attorney
        General of the United States; ALEJANDRO N. MAYORKAS, Secretary of the United
        States Department of Homeland Security; UR M. JADDOU, Director of United States
        Citizenship and Immigration Services,

                             Defendants - Appellees.

        Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina, at
        Charlotte. Max O. Cogburn, Jr., District Judge. (3:21-cv-00647-MOC-DCK)

        Submitted: October 31, 2022                                       Decided: January 27, 2023

        Before GREGORY, Chief Judge, and KING and RUSHING, Circuit Judges.

        Affirmed by unpublished per curiam opinion.

        ON BRIEF: Bruno J. Bembi, LAW OFFICE OF BRUNO J. BEMBI, Hempstead, New
        York, for Appellants. Dena J. King, United States Attorney, Julia K. Wood, Assistant
        United States Attorney, OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES ATTORNEY, Charlotte,
        North Carolina, for Appellees.

        Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.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

               Ying Lin and Yi Lin appeal the district court’s order dismissing their complaint

        challenging the Defendants’ decision denying Ying Lin derivative asylee status under 8

        U.S.C. § 1158(b)(3)(A). This Court reviews de novo a district court’s dismissal for lack

        of subject matter jurisdiction under Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(b)(1). Balfour Beatty Infrastructure,

        Inc. v. Mayor & City Council of Balt., 855 F.3d 247, 251 (4th Cir. 2017). Dismissal under

        Rule 12(b)(1) is appropriate “if the material jurisdictional facts are not in dispute and the

        moving party is entitled to prevail as a matter of law.” Id. (internal quotation marks

        omitted).

               Upon our review, we conclude that the district court properly found that it was

        without jurisdiction to consider the agency’s decision. Accordingly, we affirm. 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.

                                                                                        AFFIRMED

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