ALBERTO DE JESUS-FERNANDEZ GUERRA, AKA Alberto De Jesus Guerra- Hernandez v. LORETTA E. LYNCH, Attorney General

NOT FOR PUBLICATION
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
ALBERTO DE JESUS-FERNANDEZ
GUERRA, AKA Alberto De Jesus Guerra-
Hernandez and ELSA AVILA DE
GUERRA,
Petitioners,
v.
LORETTA E. LYNCH, Attorney General,
Respondent.
No. 14-73130
Agency Nos. A026-786-209
A026-786-208
MEMORANDUM*
On Petition for Review of an Order of the
Board of Immigration Appeals
Submitted April 26, 2016**
Before: McKEOWN, WARDLAW, and PAEZ, Circuit Judges.
Alberto De Jesus-Fernandez Guerra and Elsa Avila De Guerra, both natives
and citizens of El Salvador, petition for review of the Board of Immigration
Appeals’ (“BIA”) order denying their motion to reopen. Our jurisdiction is
FILED
MAY 02 2016
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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governed by 8 U.S.C. § 1252. We review for abuse of discretion the denial of a
motion to reopen. Mohammed v. 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 by denying petitioners’ motion to
reopen as untimely, where the motion was filed more than 25 years after their final
order of removal, see 8 C.F.R. § 1003.23(b)(1), and petitioners failed to establish
the due diligence required for equitable tolling of the filing deadline, see Avagyan
v. Holder, 646 F.3d 672, 679 (9th Cir. 2011) (equitable tolling is available to an
alien who is prevented from timely filing a motion to reopen due to deception,
fraud or error, as long as petitioner exercises due diligence in discovering such
circumstances); see also Albillo-De Leon v. Gonzales, 410 F.3d 1090, 1099-1100
(9th Cir. 2005) (due diligence showing required for a claim under the Nicaraguan
Adjustment and Central American Relief Act (“NACARA”) to be equitably tolled).
Because the timeliness determination is dispositive, the BIA was not
required to address, and we do not reach here, petitioners’ contentions regarding
prior counsel’s alleged ineffective assistance or eligibility for NACARA. See
Simeonov v. Ashcroft, 371 F.3d 532, 538 (9th Cir. 2004).
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Contrary to petitioners’ contentions, the BIA sufficiently considered their
arguments and articulated its reasons for denying the motion. See Najmabadi v.
Holder, 597 F.3d 983, 990 (9th Cir. 2010).
To the extent petitioners challenge the BIA’s decision not to invoke its sua
sponte authority to reopen, we lack jurisdiction over that contention. See Mejia-
Hernandez v. Holder, 633 F.3d 818, 823-24 (9th Cir. 2011). In addition,
petitioners’ contention that the BIA stated it lacked the power to reopen sua sponte
is not supported by the record.
PETITION FOR REVIEW DENIED in part and DISMISSED in part.
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