Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

Sukhwinder Singh v. Jefferson Sessions

15-73417·Judge: Schroeder, Tashima, Smith·Attorney: Sukhwinder Singh, Pro Se, Victor Matthew Lawrence, I, Esquire, Assistant Director, OIL, DOJ—U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division/Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, Chief Counsel ICE, Office of the Chief Counsel, Department of Homeland Security, San Francisco, CA, for Respondent0 citations

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NOT FOR PUBLICATION FILED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS AUG 16 2017 MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK U.S. COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

SUKHWINDER SINGH, AKA Bobby No. 15-73417 Singh, AKA Sukwinder Bobby Singh, Agency No. A073-766-068 Petitioner,

v. MEMORANDUM*

JEFFERSON B. SESSIONS III, Attorney General,

Respondent.

On Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration Appeals

Submitted August 9, 2017**

Before: SCHROEDER, TASHIMA, and M. SMITH, Circuit Judges.

Sukhwinder Singh, a native and citizen of India, petitions pro se 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. Najmabadi v. Holder, 597

* This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3. ** The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2). F.3d 983, 986 (9th Cir. 2010). We deny in part and dismiss in part the petition for

review.

The BIA did not abuse its discretion in denying Singh’s motion to reopen as

untimely where the motion was filed more than two years after the BIA’s final

order, see 8 C.F.R. § 1003.2(c)(2), and Singh failed to provide sufficient evidence

of a material change in circumstances in India to qualify for a regulatory exception

to the time limitation for filing a motion to reopen, see 8 C.F.R. § 1003.2(c)(3)(ii);

see also Toufighi v. Mukasey, 538 F.3d 988, 996 (9th Cir. 2008) (the BIA may

deny a motion to reopen for failure to establish materially changed country

conditions).

We do not consider the materials attached to Singh’s opening brief that are

not part of the administrative record, see Fisher v. INS, 79 F.3d 955, 963 (9th Cir.

1996) (en banc) (our review is limited to the administrative record), and we lack

jurisdiction to consider Singh’s arguments as to evidence or claims for relief that

he did not present to the BIA in his motion to reopen, see Barron v. Ashcroft, 358

F.3d 674, 677-78 (9th Cir. 2004) (petitioner must exhaust issues or claims in

administrative proceedings below).

PETITION FOR REVIEW DENIED in part; DISMISSED in part.

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