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Bertha ZAMORA AGUIRRE, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
    No. 10-70681.
    United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
    Submitted July 12, 2011.
    
    Filed July 20, 2011.
    
      Gary Finn, Law Offices of Gary Finn, Indio, CA, for Petitioner.
    Kathryn McKinney, OIL, DOJ-U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, Chief Counsel Ice, Office of the Chief Counsel Department of Homeland Security, San Francisco, CA, for Respondent.
    Before: SCHROEDER, ALARCÓN, and LEAVY, Circuit Judges.
    
      
       The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).
    
   MEMORANDUM

Bertha Zamora Aguirre petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) order dismissing her appeal from an immigration judge’s order of removal. We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252. We review for substantial evidence the agency’s findings of fact, and review de novo questions of law and due process claims. Balam-Chuc v. Mukasey, 547 F.3d 1044, 1048 (9th Cir.2008). We deny the petition for review.

Substantial evidence supports the BIA’s determination that the government demonstrated Zamora Aguirre’s alienage by clear and convincing evidence, where the record contains her husband’s asylum application and an attached birth certificate indicating that Zamora Aguirre was born in Mexico. See 8 C.F.R. § 208.3(c)(1) (“information provided in the [asylum] application may be used ... to satisfy any burden of proof in ... removal proceedings”); Ayala-Villanueva v. Holder, 572 F.3d 736, 738 n. 3 (9th Cir.2009) (“[e]vi-dence of foreign birth gives rise to a rebut-table presumption of alienage”).

Contrary to Zamora Aguirre’s contention, the agency properly admitted and relied on the asylum application. See 8 C.F.R. § 208.3(c)(3) (“If the Service has not mailed the incomplete application back to the applicant within 30 days, it shall be deemed complete.”); Rojas-Garcia v. Ashcroft, 339 F.3d 814, 823 (9th Cir.2003) (evidence is admissible in immigration proceedings when it is “probative and its admission is fundamentally fair”).

Zamora Aguirre’s right to invoke the Fifth Amendment was not violated because she did not testify regarding her alienage. See U.S. v. Blackman, 72 F.3d 1418, 1426 (9th Cir.1995) (“The privilege against self-incrimination is personal, and applies only to compulsion of the individual holding the privilege.”).

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