Gomez-Velasquez

MEMORANDUM ***

Alvaro Leonel Gomez-Velasquez (“Velasquez”), a native and citizen of Guatemala, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals order summarily affirming an immigration judge’s (“IJ”) decision to deny his application for asylum and withholding of removal. We dismiss in part and deny in part.

We lack jurisdiction to review the IJ’s determination that Velasquez failed to file his asylum application within one year of his arrival in the United States as required by statute. See Hakeem v. INS, 273 F.3d 812, 815 (9th Cir.2001). Accordingly, we dismiss the petition for review of the asylum claim.

We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252 to review denial of withholding of *469 removal. Because the evidence does not compel the conclusion that he more likely than not would be persecuted on account of his political opinion if returned to Guatemala, see Hoxha v. Ashcroft, 319 F.3d 1179, 1185 (9th Cir.2003), Velasquez is not entitled to withholding of removal.

Pursuant to Desta v. Ashcroft, 365 F.3d 741 (9th Cir.2004), petitioner’s motion for stay of removal included a timely request for stay of voluntary departure. Because the motion for stay of removal was…