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Summary: FILED NOT FOR PUBLICATION FEB 10 2020 UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK U.S. COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT SOVANNY PAL, No. 16-73460 Petitioner, Agency No. A095-195-265 v. MEMORANDUM* WILLIAM P. BARR, Attorney General, Respondent. On Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration Appeals Submitted February 6, 2020** Pasadena, California Before: THOMAS, Chief Judge, and WARDLAW and NGUYEN, Circuit Judges. Sovanny Pal petitions for review of the Board of Im
Summary: FILED NOT FOR PUBLICATION FEB 10 2020 UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK U.S. COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT SOVANNY PAL, No. 16-73460 Petitioner, Agency No. A095-195-265 v. MEMORANDUM* WILLIAM P. BARR, Attorney General, Respondent. On Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration Appeals Submitted February 6, 2020** Pasadena, California Before: THOMAS, Chief Judge, and WARDLAW and NGUYEN, Circuit Judges. Sovanny Pal petitions for review of the Board of Imm..
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FILED
NOT FOR PUBLICATION
FEB 10 2020
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK
U.S. COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
SOVANNY PAL, No. 16-73460
Petitioner, Agency No. A095-195-265
v.
MEMORANDUM*
WILLIAM P. BARR, Attorney General,
Respondent.
On Petition for Review of an Order of the
Board of Immigration Appeals
Submitted February 6, 2020**
Pasadena, California
Before: THOMAS, Chief Judge, and WARDLAW and NGUYEN, Circuit Judges.
Sovanny Pal petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeal’s
(“BIA”) dismissal of her appeal from the immigration judge’s (“IJ”) denial of her
application for adjustment of status based on the frivolous asylum bar. We have
*
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent
except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.
**
The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision
without oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2).
jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252, and we deny the petition. Because the parties
are familiar with the factual history of this proceeding we need not recount it here.
We review de novo whether the BIA properly applied the Matter of Y-L-, 24
I & N Dec. 151, 155 (BIA 2007), framework in determining that Pal filed a
frivolous asylum application. See Kulakchyan v. Holder,
730 F.3d 993, 995 (9th
Cir. 2013) (per curiam). The BIA properly concluded that Pal had notice of the
consequences of filing a frivolous application, and its specific finding that she
deliberately fabricated the application was supported by a preponderance of the
evidence; Pal was also given the opportunity to explain the discrepancies in her
application.
Id. n.1.
Pal had notice of the consequences when she signed her asylum application
beneath a bold-print warning of the consequences of filing a frivolous application
and when she affirmed that she was aware of those consequences at her asylum
interview. See Cheema v. Holder,
693 F.3d 1045, 1049 (9th Cir. 2012); see also
Kulakchyan, 730 F.3d at 995. The BIA’s specific finding that Pal filed a frivolous
application is supported by substantial evidence, including the fact that Pal
renewed her fabricated application after she purportedly knew of its contents. See
Ahir v. Mukasey,
527 F.3d 912, 918 (9th Cir. 2008). The record indicates that both
the initial IJ before whom Pal appeared and the BIA sufficiently notified Pal that
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her application would likely be considered frivolous, and she had the opportunity
to submit additional materials to refute a frivolousness finding.
We deny Pal’s petition as to her due process claim that she did not have
adequate notice and opportunity to respond to the allegations of frivolousness. Cf.
Kulakchyan, 730 F.3d at 996 (holding that the petitioner had “several months to
craft her explanation in response” to the government’s motion to pretermit her
application for asylum based on the frivolous asylum bar, and this time period gave
her a sufficient opportunity to respond).
We lack jurisdiction to consider Pal’s claim that her due process rights were
violated by inadequate translation at her asylum interviews because she did not
exhaust her administrative remedies. Barron v. Ashcroft,
358 F.3d 674, 678 (9th
Cir. 2004).
PETITION DENIED.
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