ARGUED JUNE 9, 2011
Before MANION, WOOD, and HAMILTON, Circuit Judges.
We consider three petitions for review by a Mexican citizen who has been ordered removed from the United States. The first petition, No. 10-1411, seeks direct review of an order by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) reinstating an earlier order of removal. We have jurisdiction over that petition, but the order was clearly proper. We deny that petition on its merits. The second and third petitions seek to create a novel route to obtain, apparently for the first time in the circuit courts of appeals, judicial review of orders by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) that denied petitioner the “U Visa” he sought to prolong his unlawful stay in the United States. U Visas, which take their name from 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(15)(U), grant temporary lawful resident status to alien victims of crime who assist in an investigation or prosecution. We conclude that we lack jurisdiction over those petitions and dismiss them.