Ahir

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

KALAVATIBEN AHIR, 

Petitioner, No. 04-73464 v.  Agency No.

A70-623-855

MICHAEL B. MUKASEY, Attorney General, OPINION Respondent.  On Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration Appeals

Argued and Submitted March 4, 2008—Pasadena, California

Filed June 2, 2008

Before: J. Clifford Wallace, Ronald M. Gould, and Sandra S. Ikuta, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Wallace COUNSEL

Garish Sarin, Los Angeles, California, for the petitioner.

Peter Keisler, Assistant Attorney General, Norah Ascoli Schwartz, Senior Litigation Counsel, John C. Cunningham, 6418 AHIR v. MUKASEY Senior Litigation Counsel, Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, D.C., for the respondent.

OPINION

WALLACE, Circuit Judge:

Kalavatiben Ahir petitions for review of a decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals (Board) affirming the Immi- gration Judge’s (IJ) finding that her application for asylum was frivolous. We have jurisdiction to review orders of removal pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1252, and we deny the peti-…