Rojas-Paz

Rojas-Paz v. Holder

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338 F. App'x 710
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitJuly 24, 2009No. 06-75109California231 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

MEMORANDUM **

Amilcar Aicardo Rojas-Paz, a native and citizen of Colombia, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) order dismissing an immigration judge’s (“IJ”) decision denying his applications for asylum, withholding of removal, and protection under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”), and denying his motion to continue. We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . We review for substantial evidence, Nagoulko v. INS, 333 F.3d 1012, 1015 (9th Cir.2003), and deny in part and grant in part the petition for review, and remand for further proceedings.

Rojas-Paz failed to challenge the agency’s determination that his asylum application was untimely, and thus waived *712 that contention. See Martinez-Serrano v. INS, 94 F.3d 1256, 1259-60 (9th Cir.1996).

The BIA failed to address RojasPaz’s contention that the IJ abused his discretion in denying Rojas-Paz’s motion to continue to allow him to obtain corroborating evidence, and we therefore remand for the BIA to address this contention in the first instance. See Sagaydak v. Gonzales, 405 F.3d 1035, 1040 (9th Cir.2005); see also INS v. Ventura, 537 U.S. 12, 16-18 , 123 S.Ct. 353 , 154 L.Ed.2d 272 (2002)…

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