United States Ninth Circuit

Iranian citizen's petition for review of a denial of his motion to reopen his claims for asylum and withholding of removal is denied where: 1) a motion to reopen based upon his marriage and the birth of his children was barred as untimely; and 2) a motion to reopen based on changed circumstances was properly denied as the BIA did not err as a matter of law when it concluded that petitioner failed to establish that he would be persecuted for being a Christian, nor did it err in failing to consider other possible bases for reopening.

Appellate Information

• Argued 08/09/2007
• Decided 12/13/2007
• Published 12/13/2007

Judges

• Before:  MARSHA S. BERZON and SANDRA S. IKUTA, Circuit Judges, and JAMES K. SINGLETON, JR., Senior District Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Theodore Whitley Chandler, Sidley Austin, San Francisco, CA, for the petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Adam M. Dinnell (argued) and Terri Scadron, United States Department of Justice, Civil Division, Washington, DC, for the respondent.