NOT FOR PUBLICATION FILED
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS APR 18 2018
MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
U.S. COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
ADAN PEREZ-ZAZUETA, No. 15-71952
Petitioner, Agency No. A200-569-599
v.
MEMORANDUM*
JEFFERSON B. SESSIONS III, Attorney
General,
Respondent.
On Petition for Review of an Order of the
Board of Immigration Appeals
Submitted April 12, 2018**
Pasadena, California
Before: BEA and MURGUIA, Circuit Judges, and BASTIAN,*** District Judge.
Adan Perez-Zazueta, a citizen of Mexico, petitions for review of the Board
of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) decision affirming the Immigration Judge’s
*
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent
except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.
**
The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision
without oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2).
***
The Honorable Stanley Allen Bastian, United States District Judge for
the Eastern District of Washington, sitting by designation.
(“IJ”) decision finding Perez-Zazueta ineligible for cancellation of removal under 8
U.S.C. § 1229b(1).
Reviewing de novo, Abdisalan v. Holder, 774 F.3d 517, 521 (9th Cir. 2014),
as amended (Jan. 6, 2015), we conclude that we lack jurisdiction over Perez-
Zazueta’s petition for review. Perez-Zazueta failed to file a petition for review with
this Court within 30 days of the IJ’s final order of removal, as is required under 8
U.S.C. § 1252(b)(1). On May 6, 2014, the BIA affirmed the IJ’s conclusion finding
Perez-Zazueta removable as charged and ineligible for cancellation of removal,
rendering the IJ’s removal order “final” for the purposes of 8 U.S.C. § 1252(b)(1).
Ortiz-Alfaro v. Holder, 694 F.3d 955, 958 (9th Cir. 2012) (discussing 8 U.S.C.
§ 1101(a)(47)). Perez-Zazueta filed his petition for review on June 25, 2015, well
after the 30-day deadline had passed. Because Perez-Zazueta failed to adhere to the
30-day deadline for filing a petition for review, this Court lacks jurisdiction over
the present appeal. See Abdisalan, 774 F.3d at 521 (“This time limit [under 8
U.S.C. § 1252(b)(1)] is ‘mandatory and jurisdictional.’” (quoting Stone v. I.N.S.,
514 U.S. 386, 405 (1995))).
We find unconvincing Perez-Zazueta’s argument that his removal order did
not become final until the proceedings on remand were complete. The fact that the
BIA remanded to the IJ for the limited purpose of granting a new period of
voluntary departure does not alter the finality of the removal order. See Pinto v.
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Holder, 648 F.3d 976, 980 (9th Cir. 2011) (“[T]he BIA’s decision denying asylum,
withholding of removal, and [Convention Against Torture] protection but
remanding to the IJ for voluntary departure proceedings is a final order of removal
. . . and, effectively, the only order that we can review.”); see also Singh v. Lynch,
835 F.3d 880, 883 (9th Cir. 2016) (per curiam) (same); Rizo v. Lynch, 810 F.3d
688, 691 (9th Cir. 2016) (same).
Because we lack jurisdiction over the present appeal, we do not reach the
merits of Perez-Zazueta’s argument that his convictions for indecent exposure
under Cal. Penal Code § 314(1) do not constitute crimes of moral turpitude.
PETITION DENIED.
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Adan Perez-Zazueta v. Jefferson Sessions
Combined Opinion