Akkaya v. Attorney General of the United States

OPINION

Petitioners seek review of an order of the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) denying their motion to reconsider its previous dismissal as untimely of their appeal from an order of removal issued by an Immigration Judge (“U”). For the following reasons, we will deny their petition for review.

I

Petitioners are natives and citizens of Turkey. The lead petitioner is Hayrettin Akkaya; the others are his children, whose claims are derivative of his. They were admitted as conditional permanent residents in 1998 by reason of the father’s marriage to a United States citizen. His wife…