Case Name: GUI SHENG YE, Petitioner, v. Jefferson B. SESSIONS III, Attorney General, Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2017-06-22
Citations: 692 F. App'x 823
Docket Number: No. 14-73490
Parties: GUI SHENG YE, Petitioner, v. Jefferson B. SESSIONS III, Attorney General, Respondent.
Judges: Before: W. FLETCHER and TALLMAN, Circuit Judges, and SILVER, District Judge.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 692
Pages: 823–823

Head Matter:
GUI SHENG YE, Petitioner, v. Jefferson B. SESSIONS III, Attorney General, Respondent.
No. 14-73490
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Argued and Submitted May 17, 2017 San Francisco, California
Filed June 22, 2017
Justin X. Wang, Trent Goulding, Baugh-man & Wang, San Francisco, CA, for Petitioner
Chief Counsel ICE, Office of the Chief Counsel, Department of Homeland Security, San Francisco, CA, OIL, Margot L. Carter, Trial Attorney, DOJ—U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division/Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, for Respondent
Before: W. FLETCHER and TALLMAN, Circuit Judges, and SILVER, District Judge.
The Honorable Roslyn O. Silver, United States District Judge for the District of Arizona, sitting by designation.

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
Gui Sheng Ye petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals' ("BIA") decision sustaining the Department of Homeland Security's appeal from an immigration judge's decision. The BIA denied Ye's application for a fraud waiver under 8 U.S.C. § 1227(a)(1)(H). Our jurisdiction is governed by 8 U.S.C. § 1252, and we lack jurisdiction to review the agency's exercise of discretion. 8 U.S.C. § 1252(a)(2)(B)(ii). We dismiss the petition for review.
By statute, the agency's decision whether to grant a fraud waiver is a matter of discretion. 8 U.S.C. § 1227(a)(1)(H). Ye argues the agency did not "fully and fairly consider all relevant positive factors weighing" in favor of a fraud waiver and over-emphasized the negative factors weighing against a fraud waiver. See Matter of Tijam, 22 I. & N. Dec. 408, 412 (B.I.A. 1998) (stating that in deciding whether to exercise its discretion to grant a waiver of removability, the agency balances the "alien's undesirability as a permanent resident with the social and humane considerations present," and the adverse factors to be considered "may include the nature and underlying circumstances of the fraud or misrepresentation involved"). But these arguments, and all of Ye's other arguments, are attempts to challenge the agency's discretionary decision, particularly how it weighed the evidence, a matter over which we lack jurisdiction. See Vasquez v. Holder, 602 F.3d 1003, 1017 (9th Cir. 2010) (noting "we do not have jurisdiction to review the discretionary denial of a fraud waiver"); San Pedro v. Ashcroft, 395 F.3d 1156, 1157 (9th Cir. 2005) (noting "we . lack jurisdiction" to review a petition challenging an exercise of discretion under the fraud waiver statute).
PETITION FOR REVIEW DISMISSED. Each party shall bear its own costs of this appeal.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.