Case Name: Letebirhan Naizghi GEZEHNE, Petitioner, v. John ASHCROFT, Attorney General, Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2004-12-15
Citations: 117 F. App'x 592
Docket Number: No. 03-74144; Agency No. A77-957-843
Parties: Letebirhan Naizghi GEZEHNE, Petitioner, v. John ASHCROFT, Attorney General, Respondent.
Judges: Before GOODWIN, ALARCÓN and TROTT, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 117
Pages: 592–593

Head Matter:
Letebirhan Naizghi GEZEHNE, Petitioner, v. John ASHCROFT, Attorney General, Respondent.
No. 03-74144.
Agency No. [ AXX-XXX-XXX ].
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Submitted Dec. 6, 2004.
Decided Dec. 15, 2004.
Bart Klein, Law Offices of Bart Klein, Seattle, WA, for Petitioner.
Regional Counsel, Western Region Immigration & Naturalization Service, Laguna Niguel, CA, OIL, Office of Immigration Litigation Civil Division, Department of Justice, Washington, DC, WWS-District Counsel, Immigration and Naturalization Service Office of the District Counsel, Seattle, WA, for Respondent.
Before GOODWIN, ALARCÓN and TROTT, Circuit Judges.
The panel unanimously finds this case suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
Letebirhan Naizghi Gezehne, a native and citizen of Ethiopia, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals' ("BIA") dismissal of her appeal from an Immigration Judge's denial of her application for asylum and withholding of removal. We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252. We review for substantial evidence, INS v. Elias-Zacarias, 502 U.S. 478, 481, 112 S.Ct. 812, 117 L.Ed.2d 38 (1992), and we deny the petition for review.
The BIA's finding that petitioner failed to establish persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution on account of an enumerated ground is supported by substantial evidence. See id. at 481 n. 1,112 S.Ct. at 815 n. 1 ("To reverse the BIA finding we must find that the evidence not only supports that conclusion, but compels it."). Because petitioner failed to establish eligibility for asylum, she necessarily fails to satisfy the more stringent standard for withholding of removal. See Farah v. Ashcroft, 348 F.3d 1153, 1156 (9th Cir. 2003).
Because the BIA failed to address Gezehne's contention that the IJ erred in designating Eritrea as an alternate country of removal, we remand under INS v. Ventura, 537 U.S. 12, 17, 123 S.Ct. 353, 154 L.Ed.2d 272 (2002) (per curiam) to permit the BIA to conduct further proceedings consistent with El Himri v. Ashcroft, 378 F.3d 932, 938-39 (9th Cir.2004).
We deny Gezehne's request for attorney's fees pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2412 without prejudice to its renewal upon proper application.
See 28 U.S.C § 2414(d)(1)(B); 9th Cir. R. 39-1.6, 39-2.
PETITION FOR REVIEW DENIED in part; REMANDED in part.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and may not be cited to or by the courts of this circuit except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.