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Julio Cesar ALVITRES-CAMPOS, a.k.a. Jorge Frontela, a.k.a. Gabriel Haumada, a.k.a. Juan J. Hernandez, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
    No. 11-72226.
    United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
    Submitted Nov. 13, 2012.
    
    Filed Nov. 20, 2012.
    Juan J. Hernandez, Adelanto, CA, pro se.
    Siu P. Wong, Esquire, U.S. Department of Justice, Shahrzad Baghai, Civil Division/Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, Chief Counsel ICE, Office of the Chief Counsel, Department of Homeland Security, San Francisco, CA, for Respondent.
    Before: CANBY, TROTT, and W. FLETCHER, Circuit Judges.
    
      
       The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).
    
   MEMORANDUM

Julio Cesar Alvitres-Campos, a native and citizen of Peru, petitions pro se for review of an order of the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) dismissing his appeal from an order of removal of an immigration judge (“IJ”). We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252. We review for substantial evidence the BIA’s factual determinations and review de novo due process claims. Vilchez v. Holder, 682 F.3d 1195, 1198-99 (9th Cir.2012). We deny the petition for review.

Substantial evidence supports the BIA’s determination that Alvitres-Campos had not satisfied his burden of proving by clear and convincing evidence that he is present in the United States pursuant to a prior lawful admission, because Alvitres-Cam-pos did not offer any evidence to corroborate his claim that he had entered the United States on a tourist visa. See 8 U.S.C. § 1229a(c)(2)(B) (“[T]he [alien must] demonstrate[] by clear and convincing evidence that he or she is lawfully present in the United States pursuant to a prior admission”).

Moreover, Alvitres-Campos has not demonstrated that the agency’s refusal to continue his removal proceedings caused him to suffer any prejudice because, at the time of the hearing, Alvitres-Campos’s eligibility for adjustment of status remained only a speculative possibility. See Sandoval-Luna v. Mukasey, 526 F.3d 1243, 1247 (9th Cir.2008) (per curiam) (rejecting for lack of prejudice a due process claim based on an IJ’s denial of a continuance because the petitioner had not shown that he was eligible for adjustment of status at the time of the hearing).

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