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Filmon Estefanos ITBARK, Petitioner, v. Loretta E. LYNCH, Attorney General, Respondent.
    No. 13-72575
    United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
    Submitted September 13, 2016 
    
    FILED September 21, 2016
    Filmon Estefanos Itbark, Pro Se.
    Chief Counsel ICE, Office of the Chief Counsel, Department of Homeland Security, San Francisco, CA, Gary J. Newkirk, Trial Attorney, OIL, Patrick James Glen, Esquire, DOJ-U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division/Offíce of Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, for Respondent.
    Before: HAWKINS, N.R. SMITH, and HURWITZ, Circuit Judges.
    
      
       The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2).
    
   MEMORANDUM

Filmon Estefanos Itbark, a native of Saudi Arabia and citizen of Eritrea, petitions pro se for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ order dismissing his appeal from an immigration judge’s (“U”) decision denying his application for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”). We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252. We review for substantial evidence the agency’s factual findings, applying the adverse credibility standards created by the REAL ID Act. Ren v. Holder, 648 F.3d 1079, 1083-84, 1089-90 (9th Cir. 2011). We grant petition for review and remand.

Substantial evidence does not support the agency’s adverse credibility determinar tion based on'two inconsistencies, evasiveness, and an implausibility finding. See id. at 1089 (adverse credibility finding not supported under the totality of circumstances). Further, the agency’s corroboration finding did not comply with the notice and opportunity requirements set forth in Ren v. Holder. See Zhi v. Holder, 751 F.3d 1088, 1095 (9th Cir. 2014) (IJ erred by not providing petitioner notice of the evidence that was required and an opportunity to explain why it might be unavailable).

Thus, we grant the petition for review and remand Itbark’s asylum, withholding of removal, and CAT claims to the agency, on an open record, for further proceedings consistent with this disposition. See I.N.S. v. Ventura, 537 U.S. 12, 16-18, 123 S.Ct. 353, 154 L.Ed.2d 272 (2002) (per curiam); see also Soto-Olarte v. Holder, 555 F.3d 1089, 1095 (9th Cir. 2009).

Itbark should address his request'regarding judicial notice of the 2010 Saudi Arabia country report to the agency on remand.

PETITION FOR REVIEW GRANTED; REMANDED. 
      
       This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.