Miramontes v. Mukasey

319 F. App'x 493

• Court: Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
• Decided: January 22, 2009
• Docket: No. 05-74650
• Status: Published

Opinion

MEMORANDUM

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Mario Miramontes and Cira Eusebia Fuentes, husband and wife and natives and citizens of Mexico, petition for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) order dismissing their appeal from an immigration judge’s (“IJ”) removal order. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1252. We review de novo due process claims, Ram v. INS, 243 F.3d 510, 516 (9th Cir.2001), and we grant the petition for review and remand for further proceedings.

We conclude that the IJ’s rescission of her order granting petitioners’ motion to reopen may have prejudiced petitioners because the record contains multiple forms of objective evidence that petitioners have continuously resided in the United States since 1988. As the BIA erred in determining that petitioners failed to file such objective evidence, see generally Lopez-Alvarado v. Ashcroft, 381 F.3d 847, 854 (9th Cir.2004), we remand for reconsideration of petitioners’ appeal, see INS v. Ventura, 537 U.S. 12, 16-17, 123 S.Ct. 353, 154 L.Ed.2d 272 (2002) (per curiam).

PETITION FOR REVIEW GRANTED; REMANDED.

This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9 th Cir. R. 36-3.