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Summary: 14-1304 Wan v. Sessions BIA A073 533 991 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 “SUMM
Summary: 14-1304 Wan v. Sessions BIA A073 533 991 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 “SUMMA..
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14-1304
Wan v. Sessions
BIA
A073 533 991
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 TO 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 for
2 the Second Circuit, held at the Thurgood Marshall United States
3 Courthouse, 40 Foley Square, in the City of New York, on the
4 9th day of August, two thousand seventeen.
5
6 PRESENT:
7 JON O. NEWMAN,
8 DENNIS JACOBS,
9 PIERRE N. LEVAL,
10 Circuit Judges.
11 _____________________________________
12
13 AIWEI WAN,
14 Petitioner,
15
16 v. 14-1304
17 NAC
18
19 JEFFERSON B. SESSIONS III,
20 UNITED STATES ATTORNEY GENERAL,
21 Respondent.
22 _____________________________________
23
24 FOR PETITIONER: Theodore N. Cox, New York, New York.
25
26 FOR RESPONDENT: Joyce R. Branda, Acting Assistant
27 Attorney General; Mary Jane Candaux,
28 Assistant Director; Michael C.
29 Heyse, Trial Attorney, Office of
30 Immigration Litigation, United
31 States Department of Justice,
32 Washington, D.C.
1 UPON DUE CONSIDERATION of this petition for review of a
2 Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) decision, it is hereby
3 ORDERED, ADJUDGED, AND DECREED that the petition for review is
4 DENIED.
5 Petitioner Aiwei Wan, a native and citizen of China, seeks
6 review of an April 10, 2014, decision of the BIA denying her
7 motion to reconsider and reopen. In re Aiwei Wan, No. A073 533
8 991 (B.I.A. Apr. 10, 2014). We assume the parties’ familiarity
9 with the underlying facts and procedural history in this case.
10 The applicable standards of review are well established.
11 See Jian Hui Shao v. Mukasey,
546 F.3d 138, 168-69 (2d Cir.
12 2008). Wan filed with the BIA a motion to reconsider the denial
13 of her second motion to reopen as untimely and a third motion
14 to reopen. In support, Wan submitted evidence related to her
15 claim that she fears persecution based on the birth of her
16 children in the United States purportedly in violation of
17 China’s population control program. At bottom, the issue
18 underlying both reconsideration and reopening is whether Wan’s
19 proceedings should have been reopened to allow her to apply for
20 asylum based on a change in conditions in China.
21 It is undisputed that Wan’s motions to reopen were untimely
22 and number barred because they were her second and third motions
23 filed more than a decade after her deportation order became
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1 final. See 8 U.S.C. § 1229a(c)(7)(A), (C)(i); 8 C.F.R.
2 § 1003.2(c)(2). These time and numerical limitations do not
3 apply if the motion is to reopen proceedings in order to apply
4 for asylum “based on changed country conditions arising in the
5 country of nationality or the country to which removal has been
6 ordered, if such evidence is material and was not available and
7 would not have been discovered or presented at the previous
8 proceeding.” 8 U.S.C. § 1229a(c)(7)(C)(ii); see also 8 C.F.R.
9 § 1003.2(c)(3)(ii).
10 For largely the same reasons as this Court set forth in Jian
11 Hui Shao, we find no error in the agency’s determination that
12 Wan failed to demonstrate a material change in country
13 conditions or her prima facie eligibility for relief. See
546
14 F.3d at 158-72. As with the evidence discussed in Jian Hui
15 Shao, Wan’s evidence related to Zhejiang Province is
16 insufficient because it does not discuss the use of force in
17 the enforcement of the family planning policy. See
id. at
18 160-61, 165-66, 171-72.
19 For the foregoing reasons, the petition for review is
20 DENIED. As we have completed our review, any stay of removal
21 that the Court previously granted in this petition is VACATED,
22 and any pending motion for a stay of removal in this petition
23 is DISMISSED as moot. Any pending request for oral argument
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1 in this petition is DENIED in accordance with Federal Rule of
2 Appellate Procedure 34(a)(2), and Second Circuit Local Rule
3 34.1(b).
4 FOR THE COURT:
5 Catherine O’Hagan Wolfe, Clerk
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