NOT PRECEDENTIAL UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT ___________ No. 22-1746 ___________ MARCO COSMAI, Petitioner v. ATTORNEY GENERAL UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ____________________________________ On Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration Appeals (Agency No. A208-796-884) Immigration Judge: John B. Carle ____________________________________ Submitted Pursuant to Third Circuit LAR 34.1(a) November 17, 2022 Before: HARDIMAN, PORTER, and MCKEE, Circuit Judges (Opinion filed January 10, 2023) ___________ OPINION* ___________ PER CURIAM * This disposition is not an opinion of the full Court and pursuant to I.O.P. 5.7 does not constitute binding precedent. Marco Cosmai petitions for review of an order issued by the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) dismissing his appeal. We will deny the petition. Cosmai, a citizen of Italy, entered the United States in 2001 pursuant to the Visa Waiver Program (VWP) and remained here long after the program’s allotted time expired. In 2016, he applied for asylum and withholding of removal under the Immigration and Naturalization Act (INA) and the Convention Against Torture (CAT). Thereafter, the Department of Homeland Security issued a “Notice of Referral to Immigration Judge” to Cosmai as a VWP violator. See A.R. 141 (Form I-863 Notice dated October 5, 2017).1 Cosmai, represented by counsel, was afforded the opportunity to submit evidence and to be heard by an Immigration Judge (IJ), but the IJ denied all relief. The IJ deemed Cosmai to be ineligible for asylum because he filed his application more than one year after he entered the United States without demonstrating changed or extraordinary circumstances to excuse the lateness. IJ Dec. at 2. As for withholding of removal under the INA, the IJ found that Cosmai had not proposed any particular social group and concluded that Cosmai’s generalized fear of crime did not constitute a sufficient basis for a well-founded fear of persecution or clear probability of future persecution. Id. at 2-3. Further, the IJ ruled that it was not more likely than not that Cosmai would be tortured by or with the acquiescence of Italian authorities, and relief under the CAT was therefore not 1 Pursuant to 8 C.F.R. § 208.2(c), a VWP violator may only seek asylum-based relief. 2 warranted. Id. at 3-4. By single member, the BIA dismissed Cosmai’s appeal. BIA Dec. at 2. It concurred in the IJ’s analysis on all issues and, in response to petitioner’s character evidence and concerns about COVID-19, noted that neither the IJ nor the BIA had discretion to grant relief on equitable or humanitarian grounds. Id. Cosmai, now proceeding pro se, filed a timely petition for review. We have jurisdiction over the petition pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1252(a). We exercise de novo review of constitutional issues and questions of law, see Mudric v. Att’y Gen., 469 F.3d 94, 97 (3d Cir. 2006), and review the agency’s factual findings for substantial evidence, see Nasrallah v. Barr, 140 S. Ct. 1683, 1692 (2020). On appeal, Cosmai does not challenge the agency’s application of law or its factual findings. Petitioner’s …
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