Romulo

MEMORANDUM **

Jose Bonifacio Nadales Romulo and Gertrudes Del Carmen Palma, husband and wife and natives and citizens of Mexico and El Salvador respectively, petition for review of an order of the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) dismissing their appeal of an immigration judge’s (“IJ”) denial of their applications for cancellation of removal. ‘We review for substantial evidence the BIA’s decision that an applicant has failed to establish ten years of continuous physical presence in the United States.” Lopez-Alvarado v. Ashcroft, 381 F.3d 847, 851 (9th Cir.2004). We deny the petition for review.

Substantial evidence supports the BIA’s determination that petitioners did not prove that they had been continuously present in the United States for ten years prior to April 21, 1998. See Vera-Villegas v. INS, 330 F.3d 1222, 1230 (9th Cir. 2003) (BIA decision regarding continuous physical presence must be affirmed “if it is supported by reasonable, substantial evidence in the record”). The record contains an asylum application filed by Na-dales Romulo, which states that he attended high school in Mexico between 1986 and 1989 and last entered the United States in October 1989, and…