Case Name: Bernard Ferido QUITORIANO, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2014-06-12
Citations: 578 F. App'x 705
Docket Number: No. 09-72112
Parties: Bernard Ferido QUITORIANO, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
Judges: Before: REINHARDT and WATFORD, Circuit Judges, and LYNN, District Judge.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 578
Pages: 705–706

Head Matter:
Bernard Ferido QUITORIANO, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
No. 09-72112.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Submitted November 7, 2013.
Filed June 12, 2014.
Saad Ahmad, Fremont, CA, for Petitioner.
OIL, Jamie M. Dowd, Esquire, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, Ronald E. Lefevre, Office of the District Counsel Department of Homeland Security, San Francisco, CA, for Respondent.
Before: REINHARDT and WATFORD, Circuit Judges, and LYNN, District Judge.
The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).
The Honorable Barbara M.G. Lynn, District Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, sitting by designation.

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
1. Petitioner Bernard Quitoriano is a native and citizen of the Philippines who was found subject to removal under section 237(a)(2)(B)(I) of the Immigration and Nationality Act ("INA"), 8 U.S.C. § 1227(a) (2) (B) (i), as an individual who has been convicted of three violations of a law relating to a controlled substance. The Immigration Judge ("IJ") also denied Qui-toriano's application for cancellation of removal under 240A(a)(2) of the INA, 8 U.S.C. § 1229b(a)(2), because he did not have the required period of continuous residence. The BIA affirmed.
2. Quitoriano does not challenge the finding that he is subject to removal, only the finding of ineligibility for cancellation of removal. To be eligible for cancellation of removal, an individual must have "resided in the United States continuously for 7 years." 8 U.S.C. § 1229b(a)(2). By statute, "an alien ceases to accrue time toward the residency requirement when . the alien commits one of a number of criminal offenses." Valencia-Alvarez v. Gonzales, 469 F.3d 1319, 1324 (9th Cir.2006); 8 U.S.C. § 1229b(d)(l). Offenses that terminate continuous residence include controlled substances offenses. 8 U.S.C. § 1182(a)(2)(A)(i)(II); Valencia-Alvarez, 469 F.3d at 1324-25 n. 8.
3. The BIA found that Quitoriano's controlled substances offenses interrupted his period of continuous residence, thus rendering him ineligible for cancellation of removal. Quitoriano argues that his accrual of continuous residence should be deemed as having terminated on the date that he failed to comply with the conditions of probation that would have led to an expungement of his convictions had he satisfied those conditions, not on the date that he committed the offenses leading to his convictions. We reject this argument because it contradicts the plain language of the statute, which bases termination of continuous residence on the date when the act triggering removability was committed. "[T]he 'stop-time' rule . is triggered by the commission of a crime, rather than by a conviction resulting from a guilty plea." In re Jurado-Delgado, 24 I. & N. Dec. 29, 32 (BIA 2006). Because Quitoriano's criminal offenses were committed less than seven years after November 23, 2000 — his date of admission to the United States-he did not have the period of continuous residence required to be eligible for cancellation of removal.
PETITION DENIED.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9 th Cir. R. 36-3.
. We need not consider whether, had Quitori-ano completed his probation and successfully expunged his convictions, the offenses would still "render[][him] inadmissible" under 8 U.S.C. § 1229b(d)(l); here, Quitoriano's convictions were not expunged and the offenses leading to those convictions did render him inadmissible.