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Charlito Alvarez UDARBE, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
    No. 04-72219.
    United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
    Submitted Feb. 18, 2009.
    
    Filed Feb. 27, 2009.
    Ravit Rae Halperin, Korenberg Abra-mowitz & Feldun A Law Corporation, Sherman Oaks, CA, for Petitioner.
    David V. Bernal, Margaret K. Taylor, U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Div./Office of Immigration Lit., Washington, DC, Ronald E. Lefevre, Office of the District Counsel, Department of Homeland Security, San Francisco, CA, for Respondent.
    Before: BEEZER, FERNANDEZ, and W. FLETCHER, Circuit Judges.
    
      
       The panel unanimously finds this case suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).
    
   MEMORANDUM

Charlito Alvarez Udarbe, a native and citizen of the Philippines, petitions for review of a Board of Immigration Appeals’ order dismissing his appeal from an immigration judge’s (“IJ”) decision denying his application for suspension of deportation, voluntary departure, asylum, and withholding of removal. Our jurisdiction is governed by 8 U.S.C. § 1252. We review for substantial evidence, INS v. Elias-Zacarias, 502 U.S. 478, 481 n. 1, 112 S.Ct. 812, 117 L.Ed.2d 38 (1992), and we dismiss in part and deny in part the petition for review.

We lack jurisdiction to review the IJ’s pretermission of Udarbe’s suspension of deportation claim and denial of voluntary departure because he failed to exhaust the issues before the BIA. See Zara v. Ashcroft, 383 F.3d 927, 930 (9th Cir.2004).

Substantial evidence supports the IJ’s adverse credibility determination because the IJ’s negative assessment of Udarbe’s demeanor is entitled to special deference. See Singh-Kaur v. INS, 183 F.3d 1147, 1151 (9th Cir.1999). Because Udarbe’s asylum and withholding of removal claims are based on testimony the IJ found not credible, those claims fail. See Farah v. Ashcroft, 348 F.3d 1153, 1156 (9th Cir.2003).

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