to begin serving their sentences. The district court’s judgment granting petitioners’ § 2255 motions and setting aside their convictions and sentences is REVERSED. 1 . The petitioners contend that we lack jurisdiction because the government's notice of appeal was filed on the sixtieth day after entry of the order being appealed. That contention assumes that this appeal is governed by Fed. R.App.P. 4(b)(1)(B), which requires that any notice of appeal by the government be filed within 30 days after judgment in a criminal case. Instead, appeals in § 2255 proceedings are treated as civil in nature and are governed by Fed.R.App.P. 4(a)(1)(B), which allows 60 days for filing the notice of appeal where the government is a party. See United States v. Brown, 117 F.3d 471, 474 (11th Cir.1997) (<HOLDING>); United States v. Phillips, 225 F.3d 1198,
holding that notice of appeal was not effectively taken where appeal was filed simultaneously with timely motion for reconsideration because when timely motion for reconsideration is filed a notice of appeal filed prior to disposition of the motion to reconsider has no effect holding that the appeal was timely filed because federal rule of appellate procedure 4a provides inmates with sixty days to appeal the denial of a  2255 motion holding timely notice of appeal under fed rapp p 4a is jurisdictional holding that the plaintiffs motion for extension of time to file appeal qualified as a notice of appeal because it met the requirements of rule 4 of the federal rules of appellate procedure holding that on appeal from the denial of a  2255 motion appellate review is limited to the issues specified in the coa