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UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Carlos Lorenzo JIMENEZ, Defendant-Appellant.
    No. 14-436-cr.
    United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.
    Feb. 24, 2015.
    
      Jonathan I. Edelstein, Edelstein & Grossman, New York, NY., for Appellant.
    Nathan D. Reilly And David C. James, Assistant United States Attorneys, for Loretta E. Lynch, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, Brooklyn, N.Y., for Appellee.
    Present: BARRINGTON D. PARKER, PETER W. HALL, and DEBRA ANN LIVINGSTON, Circuit Judges.
   SUMMARY ORDER

Defendant-Appellant Carlos Lorenzo Jimenez challenges the validity of his plea and the reasonableness of his sentence. (Korman, J.). We assume the parties’ familiarity with the underlying facts, the procedural history, and the issues presented for review.

Jimenez’s contention that his plea colloquy was insufficient under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 11 is without merit. Jimenez has failed to demonstrate that the district court committed plain error, as he must because he neglected to raise the issue before the district court. See United States v. Yang Chia Tien, 720 F.3d 464, 469 (2d Cir.2013). Contrary to Jimenez’s contention, the record does not show that the magistrate judge’s discussion of the potential immigration consequences of his plea was affirmatively misleading. Even under Jimenez’s interpretation of the colloquy, the magistrate judge accurately informed him that deportation was a potential consequence of his plea. See Zhang v. United States, 506 F.3d 162, 168 (2d Cir. 2007) (“If the statements were accurate at the time they were made, then they could not reasonably be said to be misleading and could not have rendered [defendant’s] guilty plea involuntary.”). Moreover, other documents that Jimenez signed, and which were translated for him, make clear that he was aware that deportation following a guilty plea was presumptively mandatory and that he wished to plead guilty regardless. He, therefore, cannot demonstrate a reasonable probability that but for the magistrate judge’s supposed error, he would not have pleaded guilty. See United States v. Adams, 768 F.3d 219, 223 (2d Cir.2014) (“To satisfy the plain error standard applicable in this case, however, the defendant must also establish ‘a reasonable probability that, but for the error, he would not have entered the plea.’ ” (quoting Yang Chia Tien, 720 F.3d at 469)).

Jimenez has similarly failed to demonstrate that the district court abused its discretion when it sentenced him to a term that included two years of supervised release. See United States v. Gavera, 550 F.3d 180, 189 (2d Cir.2008) (en banc). While defendant may have preferred a sentence that did not include any term of supervised release, the term imposed was three years below the statutory minimum and at the very bottom of the guidelines range. It is clear from the record that the district court considered all of the sentencing factors when reaching its decision and a two-year term of supervised release is “ ‘within the range of permissible decisions’ ” based on the facts of this case. Id. (quoting United States v. Rigas, 490 F.3d 208, 238 (2d Cir.2007)).

All parties agree that, while the district court orally sentenced Jimenez to a two-year term of supervised release, the written judgment incorrectly indicates a three-year term of supervised release. A remand to correct the written judgment to impose the term announced at the time of sentencing is therefore appropriate. See, e.g., United States v. Carr, 557 F.3d 93, 109-10 (2d Cir.2009).

We have considered Jimenez’s remaining arguments and find them to be without merit.

Accordingly, with the exception noted above regarding the written form of the judgment, the judgment of the district court is AFFIRMED. This case is REMANDED to the District Court, however, for the limited purpose of correcting the written judgment to conform it to the judgment announced at the time of sentencing. 
      
      . Jimenez only challenges the substantive reasonableness of his sentence.