Akram Chaudhry v. Eric Holder, Jr.

MEMORANDUM

The facts and procedural posture of this case are known to the parties, and we do not repeat them here. Petitioner Akram Sabar Chaudhry (a.k.a. Mohammad Akram Sabar) petitions for review of the BIA’s decision affirming an IJ’s termination of his previous grant of asylum under 8 C.F.R. § 1208.24 (a)(3). “We review the IJ’s factual findings regarding changed country conditions for substantial evidence.” Sowe v. Mukasey, 538 F.3d 1281, 1285 (9th Cir.2008) (internal quotation marks omitted). We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252 (a)(1), and we deny the petition for review.

Chaudhry argues that the BIA erred in upholding the IJ’s decision to terminate his asylum status because that termination was based on a charge that was not specified in the government’s Notice of Intent to Revoke Asylum. But we lack jurisdiction to consider this procedural issue because Chaudhry failed to raise it before the BIA. “It is a well-known axiom of administrative law that ‘if a petitioner wishes to preserve an issue for appeal, he must first raise it in the proper administrative forum.’” Barron v. Ashcroft, 358 F.3d 674, 677 (9th Cir.2004) (quoting Tejeda-Mata v. INS, 626 F.2d 721, 726…