that this RO decision was the first time the RO had adjudicated this claim following the Board’s final April 1968 decision denying that claim (R. at 128) and that this decision was issued pursuant to the Board’s February 1993 remand instructions. Accordingly, at the time the Board issued its August 1994 decision, appellate review of this claim had not been initiated, and the Board did not have jurisdiction to decide this issue and thus did not err in failing to address it. See 38 U.S.C. § 7105(a). The Court notes that this claim would still be open if notice of appellate rights as to that claim had not been provided with the denial of the claim (the ROA does not indicate one way or the other). See 38 U.S.C. § 5104(a), (b); Hauck v. Brown, 6 Vet.App. 518, 519 (1994) (per curiam order) (<HOLDING>). In any event, absent a
holding that where va never sent the claimant a formal application form pursuant to  3155 the oneyear time period to return it could not have begun to run and therefore the effective date of the claim was the date of the informal claim holding that the time in which to file a petition for review of a commissioners order commences upon the signing of the written order holding that where appellant never received notification of any denial  the oneyear period within which to file an nod which commences with the date of mailing of notice of the result of initial review or determination did not begin to run holding that oneyear period commences on date of discovery of the fraudulent nature of the transfer holding that a notice of claim period did not begin to run until discovery of the injury