Case Name: SUN DAING, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER Jr., Attorney General, Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2010-04-30
Citations: 378 F. App'x 620
Docket Number: No. 06-70210
Parties: SUN DAING, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
Judges: Before: KOZINSKI, Chief Judge, ARCHER, Senior Circuit Judge, and CALLAHAN, Circuit Judge.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 378
Pages: 620–621

Head Matter:
SUN DAING, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
No. 06-70210.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Argued and Submitted April 15, 2010.
Filed April 30, 2010.
Christopher Joren Lyons, Asian Law Caucus, San Francisco, CA, for Petitioner.
David V. Bernal, Assistant Director, Regina Byrd, Esquire, Carmel Aileen Morgan, Esquire, Trial, OIL, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, Ronald E. Le-Fevre, Office of the District Counsel Department of Homeland Security, San Francisco, CA, for Respondent.
Before: KOZINSKI, Chief Judge, ARCHER, Senior Circuit Judge, and CALLAHAN, Circuit Judge.
The Honorable Glenn L. Archer, Jr., Senior United States Circuit Judge for the Federal Circuit, sitting by designation.

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
Whether Daing suffers from a mental impairment that excuses his untimely asylum application is a disputed factual question over which we lack jurisdiction. See Ramadan v. Gonzales, 479 F.3d 646, 650 (9th Cir.2007) (per curiam). Assessing the severity of Daing's depression involves an unreviewable determination "dependent . upon the identity of the person." Id. at 656 (internal quotation marks omitted) (alteration in original). We lack jurisdic tion over the denial of the motion to reopen because it pertains to the merits of this previously-made discretionary determination. See Fernandez v. Gonzales, 439 F.3d 592, 603 (9th Cir.2006).
Substantial evidence supports the BIA's denial of the application for withholding of removal because Daing didn't demonstrate a likelihood of future persecution. Even if we assume that Daing suffered past persecution as a child, the government has rebutted the presumption based on that persecution by demonstrating a "fundamental change in circumstances." Hanna v. Keisler, 506 F.3d 933, 938 (9th Cir.2007). The immigration judge reasonably found that "country conditions have quite obviously changed and changed to such a radical degree that [Daing's] experiences [pre-1979] provide no basis for a well-founded fear of future persecution." Daing's unpleasant experiences post-1979 don't rise to the level of persecution, and therefore don't establish a presumption of future persecution.
DISMISSED IN PART AND DENIED IN PART.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.