Case Name: Salvador Orlando SIFONTES, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2013-10-25
Citations: 543 F. App'x 727
Docket Number: No. 12-72111
Parties: Salvador Orlando SIFONTES, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
Judges: Before: FISHER, GOULD, and BYBEE, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 543
Pages: 727–728

Head Matter:
Salvador Orlando SIFONTES, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
No. 12-72111.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Submitted Oct. 15, 2013.
Filed Oct. 25, 2013.
Salvador Orlando Sifontes, Downey, CA, pro se.
Yamileth G. Davila, Trial, Matthew Allan Spurlock, Daniel Eric Goldman, Esquire, Senior Litigation Counsel, Oil, U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division/Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC, Chief Counsel Ice, Office of the Chief Counsel Department of Homeland Security, San Francisco, CA, for Respondent.
Before: FISHER, GOULD, and BYBEE, 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
Salvador Orlando Sifontes, a native and citizen of El Salvador, petitions pro se for review of an order of the Board of Immigration Appeals ("BIA") denying his motion to reopen based on ineffective assistance of counsel. We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252. We review for abuse of discretion the BIA's denial of a motion to reopen and review de novo claims of ineffective assistance of counsel. Singh v. Ashcroft, 867 F.3d 1182, 1185 (9th Cir.2004). We deny the petition for review.
The BIA did not abuse its discretion by denying Sifontes's motion to reopen due to his failure to demonstrate prejudice from his former attorney's improper filing of his first motion to reopen and failure to inform him of his right to petition for review of the agency's rejection of that motion, where his first motion to reopen presented no plausible grounds for success on the merits either in the first instance before the BIA or on review before this court. See Rojas-Garcia v. Ashcroft, 339 F.3d 814, 826 (9th Cir.2003) (holding that the absence of "plausible grounds for relief' rebuts the presumption of prejudice); cf Singh, 367 F.3d at 1190 (stating that the presumption of prejudice is sustained if the petitioner's claim "could plausibly succeed on the merits").
To the extent that Sifontes seeks to renew his motion for a stay of removal, we deny this request as moot.
PETITION FOR REVIEW DENIED.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provid ed by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.