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Jacqueline Del Socorro CRUZ-BALTODANO; Orlando Exalon Gonzalez-Cruz, Petitioners, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
    No. 08-71853.
    United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
    Submitted July 12, 2011.
    
    Filed July 21, 2011.
    
      Eduardo A. Paredes, Law Office of Eduardo A. Paredes, Los Angeles, CA, for Petitioners.
    Aimee J. Frederickson, John Hogan, Senior Litigation Counsel, Rosanne Perry, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, Ronald E. Lefevre, Office of the District 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

Jacqueline del Socorro Cruz-Baltodano and Orlando Exalon Gonzalez-Cruz, natives and citizens of Nicaragua, petition for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) order dismissing their appeal from an immigration judge’s decisions denying their application for asylum and withholding of removal and motion to terminate proceedings. Our jurisdiction is governed by 8 U.S.C. § 1252. We review de novo questions of law and for substantial evidence factual findings. See Wakkary v. Holder, 558 F.3d 1049, 1056 (9th Cir.2009). We deny in part and dismiss in part the petition for review.

Substantial evidence supports the agency’s finding that petitioners failed to establish the government was unable or unwilling to protect Cruz-Baltodano from her partner’s abuse because she did not report any of the incidents of abuse and did not establish that reporting the incidents would have been futile or subjected her to further abuse. See Castro-Perez v. Gonzales, 409 F.3d 1069, 1072 (9th Cir.2005); Ornelas-Chavez v. Gonzales, 458 F.3d 1052, 1058 (9th Cir.2006) (reporting persecution to authorities not required if applicant “can convincingly establish that doing so would have been futile or have subjected him to further abuse”). Accordingly, petitioners’ asylum and withholding of removal claims fail.

Further, the agency did not err in denying petitioners’ motion to terminate proceedings because petitioners have failed to show prejudice from any defect in the Notices to Appear (“NTA”) that were filed with the immigration court or served on them. See Kohli v. Gonzales, 473 F.3d 1061, 1068-69 (9th Cir.2007) (alleged defect in NTA was not prejudicial where petitioner did not show it “obscured the charges against her or obstructed her ability to respond to the charges and present her requests for asylum and other relief’). We lack jurisdiction to review petitioners’ due process contention because they failed to raise this issue to the BIA. See Barron v. Ashcroft, 358 F.3d 674, 678 (9th Cir.2004) (no jurisdiction over claims not presented below).

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