Celso Hernandez-Aguirre v. Eric Holder, Jr.
Opinion
Opinion
MEMORANDUM
Celso Hernandez-Aguirre, a native and citizen of Mexico, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) order dismissing his appeal from an immigration judge’s decision denying his application for cancellation of removal. We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . We grant the petition for review and remand.
Hernandez-Aguirre contends that there is no rationale for concluding that his vol untary return to Mexico terminated his accrual of continuous physical presence, where he had already accrued ten years of continuous physical presence at the time he accepted voluntary return. Because Hernandez-Aguirre raised this contention to the BIA, and- the BIA did not consider it, we remand to the agency to consider in the first instance whether a voluntary return interrupts an alien’s accrual of continuous physical presence where an alien has already accrued ten years of continuous presence at the time he accepts voluntary return. Coronado v. Holder, 759 F.3d 977, 987 (9th Cir.2014) (under the ordinary remand rule, we do not decide a claim the agency has not addressed, but remand the claim to the agency to consider in the first instance).