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Carlos Alberto GONZALEZ GARCIA, Petitioner, v. Michael B. MUKASEY, Attorney General, Respondent.
    No. 05-72154.
    United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
    Argued and Submitted Dec. 11, 2008.
    Filed Jan. 9, 2009.
    Carlos Alberto Gonzalez Garcia, George Emel Pence, Esquire, Michael Steinberg, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, Los Angeles, CA, for Petitioner.
    
      Elizabeth J. Stevens, Assistant Director, Edward Earl Wiggers, Esquire, Brianne Whelan Cohen, Blair O’Connor, Assistant Director, William C. Peachey, Esquire, U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division/Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, District Counsel, Esquire, Office of the District Counsel, Department of Homeland Security, Los An-geles, CA, Ronald E. Lefevre, Office of the District Counsel, Department of Homeland Security, San Francisco, CA, for Respondent.
    Before: PREGERSON and D.W. NELSON, Circuit Judges, and SINGLETON , Senior District Judge.
    
      
       The Honorable James K. Singleton, United States District Judge for the District of Alaska, sitting by designation.
    
   MEMORANDUM

Carlos Gonzalez Garcia, a native and citizen of Mexico, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ denial of his claim of ineffective assistance of counsel pursuant to his application for Cancellation of Removal. Gonzalez Garcia contended before the Board of Immigration Appeals that his former attorney, Timothy Mason, provided him with ineffective assistance of counsel. Mason was disbarred on July 18, 2004.

Before this court, however, Gonzalez Garcia does not argue that Timothy Mason provided him with ineffective assistance of counsel. Instead, Gonzalez Garcia contends for the first time that his former attorney, Karen Sims, provided ineffective assistance of counsel. Sims worked for Mason. Gonzalez Garcia also proffers new evidence to support this claim.

Gonzalez Garcia presents strong evidence that Sims provided ineffective assistance of counsel before the immigration judge. Indeed, Sims was disbarred on July 19, 2007. This court, however, lacks jurisdiction over this appeal pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1252(d)(1). We therefore exercise our authority to stay the mandate for 120 days from the filing of this order to allow time for Gonzalez Garcia’s pro bono counsel to file a motion to reopen before the Board of Immigration Appeals to present this new ineffective assistance of counsel claim. PETITION FOR REVIEW DENIED. MANDATE STAYED. 
      
       This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.