Case Name: Anita Docena GINOCCHIO, Petitioner, v. Michael B. MUKASEY, Attorney General, Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2008-08-15
Citations: 289 F. App'x 234
Docket Number: No. 04-71894
Parties: Anita Docena GINOCCHIO, Petitioner, v. Michael B. MUKASEY, Attorney General, Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 289
Pages: 234–235

Head Matter:
Anita Docena GINOCCHIO, Petitioner, v. Michael B. MUKASEY, Attorney General, Respondent.
No. 04-71894.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Submitted April 11, 2008.
Filed Aug. 15, 2008.
Gail A. Dulay, Esquire, Law Office of Gail A. Dulay, San Diego, CA, for Petitioner.
Anthony W. Norwood, Senior Litigation Counsel, Jem C. Sponzo, Esquire, Earle B. Wilson, Esquire, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, Office of the District Counsel Department of Homeland Security, San Diego, CA, Ronald E. Lefevre, Office of the District Counsel Department of Homeland Security, San Francisco, CA, for Respondent.
Before: GOODWIN, PREGERSON, and D.W. NELSON, Circuit Judges.
The panel unanimously finds this case suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
Anita Docena Ginocchio ("Ginocchio") petitions for review of a decision by the Board of Immigration Appeals ("BIA") that denied her application for adjustment of status and ordered her removed. The parties are familiar with the facts of the case and we repeat them here only to the extent necessary to explain our decision. We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252, and we grant Ginocchio's petition for review.
In Choin v. Mukasey, 537 F.3d 1116 (9th Cir.2008), we addressed the proper interpretation of § 245(d) of the Immigration and Naturalization Act ("INA"). We held that INA § 245(d) does not make K visa-holders automatically ineligible to adjust to conditional permanent resident status if they get divorced before their application for adjustment of status is adjudicated. We apply that holding here. Like the petitioner in Choin, Ginocchio married the person who filed the K visa petition on her behalf (her fiancé), and applied for adjustment of status based on that marriage. Thus, the BIA erred in concluding that Ginocchio's divorce made her ineligible for adjustment of status. We GRANT Ginocchio's petition and REMAND to the BIA for further proceedings consistent with this disposition.
PETITION GRANTED and REMANDED.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provide d by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.