Godines

MEMORANDUM **

Francisco Javier Rodriguez Godines, a native and citizen of Mexico, petitions pro se for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ order summarily affirming an immigration judge’s (“IJ”) decision denying his application for cancellation of removal. We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . We review for substantial evidence the agency’s continuous physical presence determination, Ibanrra-Flores v. Gonzales, 439 F.3d 614, 618 (9th Cir.2006), and we grant in part and deny in part the petition for review, and remand.

An intervening change in the law requires us to remand this case. It is not possible to determine from the record whether petitioner’s departure in April 1998 was knowing and voluntary and under threat of deportation. See id. at 619 (voluntary departure under threat of deportation breaks the accrual of continuous physical presence only where the alien is informed of and accepts the terms of the voluntary departure); see also Tapia v. Gonzales, 430 F.3d 997, 998, 1004 (9th Cir.2005). It is also not possible to determine whether he had an opportunity to appear before an IJ. See Gutierrez v. Mukasey, 521 F.3d 1114, 1117-18 (9th Cir. 2008). We therefore…