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Garfield GREENWOOD, a.k.a Errol Brown, a.k.a. Ivan Daniel, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
    No. 11-71712.
    United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
    
      Submitted July 24, 2013.
    
    Filed July 31, 2013.
    Zulu Ali, Zulu Abdullah Ali, Riverside, CA, for Petitioner.
    Melissa Katherine Lott, Trial, OIL, 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: ALARCÓN, CLIFTON, and CALLAHAN, Circuit Judges.
    
      
       The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).
    
   MEMORANDUM

Garfield Greenwood, a native and citizen of Jamaica, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) order dismissing his appeal from an immigration judge’s decision denying his application for withholding of removal and relief under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”). Our jurisdiction is governed by 8 U.S.C. § 1252. We review for substantial evidence the agency’s factual findings. Shrestha v. Holder, 590 F.3d 1034, 1039 (9th Cir.2010). We deny in part and dismiss in part the petition for review.

The BIA denied Greenwood’s withholding of removal claim on adverse credibility grounds. The BIA also denied Greenwood’s CAT claim on adverse credibility grounds, and found the country conditions evidence did not show he was otherwise eligible for CAT relief. In his opening brief, Greenwood does not meaningfully challenge these finding. See Martinez-Serrano v. INS, 94 F.3d 1256, 1259-60 (9th Cir.1996) (issues that are not specifically raised and argued in a party’s opening brief are waived). We do not reach his arguments regarding the merits. See Audio, v. Ashcroft, 359 F.3d 1181, 1184 (9th Cir.2004) (“we consider only the grounds relied upon” by the BIA).

We lack jurisdiction to consider Greenwood’s ineffective assistance of counsel claim because he did not exhaust this claim before the BIA. See Barron v. Ashcroft, 358 F.3d 674, 677-78 (9th Cir.2004).

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.