Abu-Bakar v. Holder ( 2009 )

UNPUBLISHED
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT
No. 08-1473
KAREEM ABU-BAKAR,
Petitioner,
v.
ERIC H. HOLDER, JR., Attorney General,
Respondent.
On Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration
Appeals.
Submitted: February 25, 2009 Decided: April 6, 2009
Before WILKINSON, NIEMEYER, and TRAXLER, Circuit Judges.
Petition denied by unpublished per curiam opinion.
Winston Wen-Hsiung Tsai, Bethesda, Maryland, for Petitioner.
Gregory G. Katsas, Assistant Attorney General, Linda Wernery,
Assistant Director, Sarah Maloney, Office of Immigration
Litigation, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, Washington,
D.C., for Respondent.
Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.
PER CURIAM:
Kareem Abu-Bakar, a native and citizen of Nigeria,
petitions for review of an order of the Board of Immigration
Appeals (“Board”) denying his motion to reopen. We have
reviewed the record and the Board’s order and find that the
Board did not abuse its discretion in denying the motion as
untimely. See 8 C.F.R. § 1003.2(c)(2) (2008); Mosere v.
Mukasey, 552 F.3d 397, 400 (4th Cir. 2009) (“[I]t is impossible
for us to say that the BIA abused its discretion in finding
Mosere’s motion [to reopen], filed more than eleven years after
the order of voluntary departure, untimely.”). Accordingly, we
deny the petition for review. We dispense with oral argument
because the facts and legal contentions are adequately presented
in the materials before the court and argument would not aid the
decisional process.
PETITION DENIED
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