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Cleto HERNANDEZ-ORTIZ, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
    No. 06-74605.
    United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
    Submitted March 18, 2009.
    
    Filed April 6, 2009.
    Glen A. Prior, Esq., Pacific Law Inc., P.S., Fife, WA, for Petitioner.
    
      Ronald E. Lefevre, Chief Counsel, Office of the District Counsel, Department of Homeland Security, San Francisco, CA, WWS-District Counsel, Immigration and Naturalization Service, Office of the District Counsel, Seattle, WA, Mark C. Walters, Esq., Jennifer L. Lightbody, Esq., DOJ-U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Div./Office of Immigration Lit., Washington, DC, for Respondent.
    Before: LEAVY, HAWKINS, and TASHIMA, Circuit Judges.
    
      
       The panel unanimously finds this case suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).
    
   MEMORANDUM

Cleto Hernandez-Ortiz, a native and citizen of Mexico, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) order dismissing his appeal from an immigration judge’s decision denying his application for cancellation of removal. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1252. We review for substantial evidence the agency’s continuous physical presence determination, Lopez-Alvarado v. Ashcroft, 381 F.3d 847, 850-51 (9th Cir.2004), and we deny the petition for review.

Contrary to Hernandez-Ortiz’s contention, the 1997 reinstatement of his deportation order was not unlawful. See Duran Gonzales v. DHS, 508 F.3d 1227, 1241-42 (9th Cir.2007), abrogating Perez-Gonzalez v. Ashcroft, 379 F.3d 783 (9th Cir.2004). Substantial evidence therefore supports the BIA’s determination that Hernandez-Ortiz failed to establish the requisite continuous physical presence due to his four-month absence from the United States. See 8 U.S.C. §§ 1229b(b)(l)(A), (d)(2).

We do not reach Hernandez-Ortiz’s remaining contentions because the continuous physical presence determination is dis-positive. See id. § 1229b(b).

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