Jose Alonso Martinez-Meza v. LORETTA E. LYNCH, Attorney General

NOT FOR PUBLICATION
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
JOSE ALONSO MARTINEZ-MEZA,
Petitioner,
v.
LORETTA E. LYNCH, Attorney General,
Respondent.
No. 12-73177
Agency No. A088-751-155
MEMORANDUM*
On Petition for Review of an Order of the
Board of Immigration Appeals
Submitted September 21, 2015**
Before: REINHARDT, LEAVY, and BERZON, Circuit Judges.
Jose Alonso Martinez-Meza, a native and citizen of Mexico, petitions for
review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) order denying his motion to
reopen removal proceedings. Our jurisdiction is governed by 8 U.S.C. § 1252. We
review for abuse of discretion the denial of a motion to reopen. Mohammed v.
FILED
SEP 25 2015
MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
U.S. COURT OF APPEALS
* This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent
except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.
** The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision
without oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2).

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Gonzales, 400 F.3d 785, 791 (9th Cir. 2005). We deny in part and dismiss in part
the petition for review.
The BIA did not abuse its discretion in denying Martinez-Meza’s motion to
reopen as untimely, where he filed the motion more than one year after his order of
removal became final, see 8 C.F.R. § 1003.2(c)(2) (a motion to reopen must be
filed within 90 days of a final order of removal), and failed to establish that he
warranted an exception to the filing deadline, see 8 C.F.R. § 1003.2(c)(3)(ii) (90-
day deadline does not apply when alien seeks to apply for asylum and related relief
based on “changed circumstances arising in the country of nationality”).
We lack jurisdiction to review the BIA’s decision not to reopen proceedings
sua sponte. See Go v. Holder, 744 F.3d 604, 609-10 (9th Cir. 2014).
PETITION FOR REVIEW DENIED in part; DISMISSED in part.
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