609 F. App'x 438

Victor Alfonso GONZALES-CORNEJO, Petitioner, v. Loretta E. LYNCH, Attorney General, Respondent.

No. 10-72637.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Submitted June 22, 2015.*

Filed July 1, 2015.

Victor Alfonso Gonzales-Cornejo, pro se.

Edgardo Quintanilla, Quintanilla Law Firm, Inc., Sherman Oaks, CA, for Petitioner.

Before: HAWKINS, GRABER, and W. FLETCHER, Circuit Judges.

MEMORANDUM **

Victor Alfonso Gonzales-Cornejo, a native and citizen of El Salvador, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) order dismissing his appeal from an immigration judge’s (“IJ”) decision denying his application for asylum and withholding of removal. We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252. We grant the petition for review and remand.

In denying Gonzales-Cornejo’s asylum and withholding of removal claims, the agency found he failed to establish past persecution or a fear of future persecution *439on account of a protected ground. When the IJ and BIA issued their decisions in this case, they did not have the benefit of this court’s decisions in Henriquez-Rivas v. Holder, 707 F.3d 1081 (9th Cir.2013) (en banc), Cordoba v. Holder, 726 F.3d 1106 (9th Cir.2013), and Pirir-Boc v. Holder, 750 F.3d 1077 (9th Cir.2014), or the BIA’s decisions in Matter of M-E-V-G-, 26 I. & N. Dec. 227 (BIA 2014), and Matter of W-G-R-, 26 I. & N. Dec. 208 (BIA 2014). Thus, we remand Gonzales-Cornejo’s asylum and withholding of removal claims to determine the effect, if any, of these decisions. See INS v. Ventura, 537 U.S. 12, 16-18, 123 S.Ct. 353, 154 L.Ed.2d 272 (2002) (per curiam). In light of this remand, we do not reach Gonzales-Cornejo’s remaining challenges to the agency’s denial of his asylum and withholding of removal claims.

PETITION FOR REVIEW GRANTED; REMANDED.

Gonzales-Cornejo v. Lynch
609 F. App'x 438

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Gonzales-Cornejo v. Lynch
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Jul 1, 2015
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