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No. 09-1687
Submitted:
KING,
Circuit
Decided:
Judges,
and
HAMILTON,
Senior
PER CURIAM:
Eunice Tyabo Bankole, whose identity and citizenship
are in dispute, petitions this court for review of an order from
the Board of Immigration Appeals (Board), which dismissed her
appeal
of
the
Immigration
Judges
(IJ)
order
denying
her
INS v. Doherty, 502 U.S. 314, 323-24 (1992); Nken v. Holder, 585
F.3d 818, 821 (4th Cir. 2009).
Barry v. Gonzales,
to
sua
sponte
reopen
proceedings.
However,
we
lack
Accordingly,
admission
Pursuant
to
of
supplemental
the
governing
evidence
was
regulations,
contrary
such
to
law.
supplemental
The
Board
was
affirmed
this
decision.
Because
neither
decision
for
reconsideration
for
an
abuse
of
discretion.
Narine v. Holder, 559 F.3d 246, 249 (4th Cir. 2009); Jean v.
Gonzales, 435 F.3d 475, 481 (4th Cir. 2006).
We will reverse
Obioha
v.
Gonzales,
431
F.3d
400,
(4th
Cir.
2005).
Cir. 2008).
3
Bankole
discretion
in
argues
denying
the
IJ
and
the
reconsideration
Board
of
the
abused
order
the
procedural
context
of
this
petition
their
denying
However,
for
review,
conclude
requisite showing.
that
Bankole
has
failed
to
make
the
of this claim.
Finally,
Bankole
maintains
the
Board
abused
its
that
exceptional
asylum application.
this claim.
circumstances
justified
her
untimely
circumstances
to
excuse
her
untimely
filing),
cert. denied, ___ S. Ct. ___, 2010 WL 58386 (U.S. Jan. 11, 2010)
(No. 09-194); see also Jean, 435 F.3d at 480-81.
Accordingly,
For
these
reasons,
the
petition
for
review
is
dispense
with
oral
argument
because
the
facts
and
legal