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Rosario Juan LOPEZ; Maria Castaneda Pedro-Lopez; Zacarias Sebastian-Jimenes, Petitioners, v. Alberto R. GONZALES, Attorney General, Respondent.
    No. 04-72586.
    United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
    Argued and Submitted Jan. 23, 2006.
    Decided April 5, 2006.
    
      Bina Hanchinamani Ellefsen, Seattle, WA, for Petitioners.
    Regional Counsel, Western Region Immigration & Naturalization Service, Laguna Niguel, CA, WWS-District Counsel, Immigration and Naturalization Service Office of the District Counsel, Seattle, WA, OIL, DOJ—U.S. Department of Justice Civil Div./Office of Immigration Lit., Washington, DC, for Respondent.
    Before: RAWLINSON and CLIFTON, Circuit Judges, and MARSHALL, Senior District Judge.
    
      
       The Honorable Consuelo B. Marshall, Senior United States District Judge for the Central District of California, sitting by designation.
    
   MEMORANDUM

Rosario Lopez and her children Maria Pedro-Lopez and Zacarías Sebastian-Jimenes file a petition for review challenging the denial of their asylum claims. Because the IJ committed no legal error with respect to those issues over which we have jurisdiction, and because we lack jurisdiction to consider the remaining elements of the IJ’s decision, we deny in part and dismiss in part.

The IJ denied the petitioners’ asylum claims because they failed to file their application within one year of arriving in the United States, as required by 8 U.S.C. § 1158(a)(2)(B). The petitioners argue, however, that they should be exempted from this requirement under the “changed or extraordinary circumstances” exception. See 8 U.S.C. § 1158(a)(2)(D).

We lack jurisdiction to consider whether the IJ erred in evaluating the petitioners’ factual circumstances and concluding that the petitioners were ineligible for relief under the exception. See Ramadan v. Gonzales, 427 F.3d 1218, 1221-22 (9th Cir. 2005). We do have jurisdiction over non-discretionary legal issues relating to the IJ’s factual determination, including whether the IJ contravened the petitioners’ due process rights or altogether failed to consider their changed circumstances argument. See Sagaydak v. Gonzales, 405 F.3d 1035, 1039-40 (9th Cir.2005). We conclude, though, that the IJ did not commit a due process or other legal error in his denial of the petitioners’ asylum claims.

We also lack jurisdiction to determine whether Maria’s derivative claim, considered alone, was not time-barred. Since the petitioners neither raised nor discussed this issue before the IJ or BIA, they failed to exhaust available administrative remedies as to that issue and we cannot now consider it upon appeal. See Barron v. Ashcroft, 358 F.3d 674, 676-78 (9th Cir.2004); Ladha v. INS, 215 F.3d 889, 901 n. 13 (9th Cir.2000)

PETITION DENIED IN PART AND DISMISSED IN PART. 
      
       This disposition is not appropriate for publication and may not be cited to or by the courts of this circuit except as provided by 9 th Cir. R. 36-3.