Case Name: Leonardo Arturo Brenes ESCOBAR, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2013-04-22
Citations: 516 F. App'x 626
Docket Number: No. 12-71415
Parties: Leonardo Arturo Brenes ESCOBAR, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
Judges: Before: CANBY, IKUTA, and WATFORD, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 516
Pages: 626–627

Head Matter:
Leonardo Arturo Brenes ESCOBAR, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
No. 12-71415.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Submitted April 16, 2013.
Filed April 22, 2013.
Leonardo Arturo Brenes Escobar, Lancaster, CA, pro se.
OIL, David Nicholas Harling, Trial, U.S. Department of Justice Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, Chief Counsel ICE, Office of the Chief Counsel Department of Homeland Security, San Francisco, CA, for Respondent.
Before: CANBY, IKUTA, and WATFORD, Circuit Judges.
The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
Leonardo Arturo Brenes Escobar, a native and citizen of El Salvador, petitions pro se for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals' ("BIA") decision dismissing his appeal from an immigration judge's removal order. We have jurisdiction un der 8 U.S.C. § 1252. We review de novo questions of law, Freeman v. Gonzales, 444 F.3d 1031, 1037 (9th Cir.2006), and we deny the petition for review.
The BIA properly concluded that Brenes Escobar did not establish eligibility for adjustment of status where he did not file an application for that form of relief or present evidence that he is the beneficiary of an approved or pending immigrant visa petition. See 8 U.S.C. § 1229a(c)(4), 1255(a).
Removal proceedings are separate and apart from bond proceedings, see 8 C.F.R. § 1003.19(d), thus the BIA properly determined it did not have jurisdiction to review Brenes Escobar's challenge to his bond proceedings in an appeal from removal proceedings.
PETITION FOR REVIEW DENIED.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.