Flores v. Gonzales

Filing 920070702

Opinion

UNPUBLISHED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

No. 06-2019

MARIA LOURDES BARBARA Lourdes Barbara Fury,

FLORES,

a/k/a

Maria Petitioner,

versus ALBERTO R. GONZALES, United States Attorney General, Respondent.

On Petition for Review of an Order of the Board of Immigration Appeals. (A97-346-529)

Submitted:

May 30, 2007

Decided:

July 2, 2007

Before NIEMEYER, MICHAEL, and GREGORY, Circuit Judges.

Petition denied by unpublished per curiam opinion.

Jon Eric Garde, LAW OFFICES OF JON ERIC GARDE, Las Vegas, Nevada, for Appellant. Peter D. Keisler, Assistant Attorney General, James A. Hunolt, Senior Litigation Counsel, Stacey I. Young, OFFICE OF IMMIGRATION LITIGATION, Washington, D.C., for Appellee.

Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.

PER CURIAM: Maria Lourdes Barbara Flores, a native and citizen of the Philippines, petitions for review of an order of the Board of Immigration Appeals affirming without opinion the Immigration

Judge's (IJ) order denying relief from removal.

Flores asserts

that the IJ abused her discretion in denying Flores' motion to continue for adjudication of an I-130 petition for adjustment of status. We have reviewed the record and find no abuse of

discretion in the IJ's refusal to grant a continuance.

See 8

C.F.R. § 1003.29 (2006); Onyeme v. INS, 146 F.3d 227, 231 (4th Cir. 1998). The remaining claims set forth in Flores' brief were not

raised before the Board of Immigration Appeals. As such, they have not been administratively exhausted and we lack jurisdiction to review them. See 8 U.S.C. § 1252(d)(1) (2000). With regard to

Flores' ineffective assistance of counsel claim, we note that she has also failed to comply with the requirements of Matter of Lozada, 19 I. & N. Dec. 637 (B.I.A. 1988). We accordingly deny the petition for review. We dispense with oral argument because the facts and legal contentions are adequately presented in the materials before the court and argument would not aid the decisional process.

PETITION DENIED

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