Liang

MEMORANDUM **

Zaiyi Liang, a native and citizen of the People’s Republic of China, petitions pro se for review of a per curiam order of the Board of Immigration Appeals dismissing Liang’s appeal from an immigration judge’s denial of his application for asylum and withholding of removal.

Because neither the immigration judge nor the Board addressed whether Liang established that he had a well-founded fear of persecution warranting asylum, and because the Board did not address whether Liang established a clear probability of persecution if returned to China, we agree with the government that remand to the Board is warranted to address those questions. See Gonzales v. Thomas, — U.S.-, 126 S.Ct. 1613 , 164 L.Ed.2d 358 (2006) (requiring remand to the Board where the agency did not consider a question whose resolution may render the petitioner eligible for relief); INS v. Ventura, 537 U.S. 12 , 123 S.Ct. 353 , 154 L.Ed.2d 272 (2002) (requiring remand to the Board where the immigration judge, but not the Board, addressed the question whose resolution could result in relief).

To the extent Liang requests that this court resolve outright the wellfounded-fear and clear-probability…