Zhu

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

YAN XIA ZHU, 

Petitioner, No. 06-72967 v.  Agency No.

A78-399-759

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

Argued and Submitted May 8, 2008—Pasadena, California

Filed July 31, 2008

Before: William A. Fletcher and Ronald M. Gould, Circuit Judges, and Louis H. Pollak,* Senior District Judge.

Opinion by Judge Pollak; Concurrence by Judge Gould

*The Honorable Louis H. Pollak, Senior United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, sitting by designation.

9681 9684 ZHU v. MUKASEY

COUNSEL

David Z. Su, Monterey Park, California, for the petitioner.

Sada Manickam and Jacob A. Bashyrov, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for the respondent.

OPINION

POLLAK, District Judge:

Petitioner Yan Xia Zhu seeks review of the Board of Immi- gration Appeals’ (“BIA”) order affirming the opinion of the ZHU v. MUKASEY 9685 immigration judge (“IJ”) denying petitioner’s…