Cinapian

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

AGHAVNI CINAPIAN; NOREK  No. 05-72445

CINAPIAN; AKOP CINAPIAN; GEVORK

CINAPIAN, Agency No. Petitioners, A75-678-173 v.  A75-678-174

A78-015-327

ERIC H. HOLDER Jr., Attorney A95-633-719 General,

OPINION

Respondent.  On Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration Appeals

Argued and Submitted March 6, 2009 James E. Rogers College of Law The University of Arizona Tucson, Arizona

Filed June 3, 2009

Before: Michael Daly Hawkins, Marsha S. Berzon and Richard R. Clifton, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Hawkins

6607 6610 CINAPIAN v. HOLDER

COUNSEL

Dr. Willie Jordan Curtis, Assistant Dean for Student Affairs and Associate Clinical Professor of Law, and Brooke Mickel- CINAPIAN v. HOLDER 6611 son, Maria Mendoza and Victoria Diaz, Law Students, The University of Arizona, James E. Rogers College of Law, Tuc- son, Arizona, for the petitioners.

Brooke M. Maurer and Stephen J. Flynn, Office of Immigra- tion Litigation, Civil Division, U.S. Department of Justice,…