Diaz-Covarrubias

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

SARA DIAZ-COVARRUBIAS, 

Petitioner, No. 06-70447 v.  Agency No.

A029-252-915

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

Argued and Submitted October 24, 2008—Pasadena, California

Filed January 9, 2009

Before: Consuelo M. Callahan and Sandra S. Ikuta, Circuit Judges, and Milton I. Shadur,* District Judge.

Opinion by Judge Ikuta

*The Honorable Milton I. Shadur, Senior United States District Judge for the Northern District of Illinois, sitting by designation. COUNSEL

J. Jack Artz, Norwalk, California, for the petitioner.

Sarah Maloney, United States Department of Justice, Wash- ington, D.C., for the respondent.

OPINION

IKUTA, Circuit Judge:

Sara Diaz-Covarrubias petitions for review of the BIA’s refusal to “administratively close” her case. We hold that we lack jurisdiction to do so, and accordingly dismiss her petition for review.

I

Sara Diaz-Covarrubias (“Diaz”) is a thirty-five year-old native and citizen…