Antonia Garcia Veronica v. Eric Holder, Jr.

MEMORANDUM

Antonia Garcia Veronica, a native and citizen of Mexico, petitions pro se for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) order dismissing her appeal from an immigration judge’s decision denying her application for withholding of removal and relief under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”). Our jurisdiction is governed by 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . We review for substantial evidence the BIA’s factual findings. Shrestha v. Holder, 590 F.3d 1034, 1039 (9th Cir.2010). We deny in part and dismiss in part the petition for review.

Garcia Veronica testified that she separated from her abusive former common-law husband in 1998, she has not been threatened by him since 2000, and she married another man in 2005. Substantial evidence supports the BIA’s determination that, even if Garcia Veronica credibly established past persecution based on membership in a particular social group, there has been a fundamental change in circumstances such that Garcia Veronica does not face a clear probability of persecution. See 8 C.F.R. § 1208.13 (b)(l)(i)(A); see also Popova v. INS, 273 F.3d 1251, 1260 (9th Cir.2001) (evidence regarding changed circumstances must show that “there has been a…