Jonas Okwara v. Loretta Lynch

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UNPUBLISHED PER CURIAM OPINION filed. Originating case number: A089-022-210. Copies to all parties and the agency. [999722134]. [15-1503]

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UNPUBLISHED
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

No. 15-1503

JONAS OKWUCHUKWU OKWARA,
Petitioner,
v.
LORETTA E. LYNCH, Attorney General,
Respondent.

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

Submitted:

December 16, 2015

Decided:

December 21, 2015

Before DUNCAN and AGEE Circuit Judges, and DAVIS, Senior Circuit
Judge.

Petition denied by unpublished per curiam opinion.

Randall L. Johnson, JOHNSON & ASSOCIATES, P.C., Arlington,
Virginia, for Petitioner. Benjamin C. Mizer, Principal Deputy
Assistant
Attorney
General,
Anthony
W.
Norwood,
Senior
Litigation Counsel, Wendy Benner-León, OFFICE OF IMMIGRATION
LITIGATION, Washington, D.C., for Respondent.

Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.

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PER CURIAM:
Jonas Okwuchukwu Okwara, a native and citizen of Nigeria,
petitions for review of an order of the Board of Immigration
Appeals

(Board)

Judge’s

denial

dismissing
of

numerically barred.

his

his

motion

appeal
to

from

reopen

the
as

Immigration

untimely

and

We have reviewed the administrative record

and the Board’s order and find no abuse of discretion.
C.F.R. § 1003.23(b)(1) (2015).

See 8

We therefore deny the petition

for review for the reasons stated by the Board.
Okwara (B.I.A. Apr. 8, 2015).

See In re:

We dispense with oral argument

because the facts and legal contentions are adequately presented
in the materials before this court and argument would not aid
the decisional process.

PETITION DENIED

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