Case Name: Miguel Angel Ramos FLORES, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER Jr., Attorney General, Respondent; Miguel Angel Ramos Flores, Petitioner, v. Eric H. Holder Jr., Attorney General, Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2009-09-23
Citations: 346 F. App'x 221
Docket Number: Nos. 05-72786, 05-74687
Parties: Miguel Angel Ramos FLORES, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER Jr., Attorney General, Respondent. Miguel Angel Ramos Flores, Petitioner, v. Eric H. Holder Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
Judges: Before: SCHROEDER and REINHARDT, Circuit Judges, and POLLAK , Senior District Judge.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 346
Pages: 221–222

Head Matter:
Miguel Angel Ramos FLORES, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER Jr., Attorney General, Respondent. Miguel Angel Ramos Flores, Petitioner, v. Eric H. Holder Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
Nos. 05-72786, 05-74687.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Argued May 11, 2009.
Submitted Sept. 21, 2009.
Filed Sept. 23, 2009.
Francisco J. Barba, Esquire, Senior, San Jose, CA, for Petitioner.
Marshall Tamor Golding, I, Esquire, Peter H. Matson, Esquire, Anh-Thu P. MaiWindle, Senior Litigation Counsel, 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: SCHROEDER and REINHARDT, Circuit Judges, and POLLAK , Senior District Judge.
The Honorable Louis H. Poliak, Senior United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, sitting by designation.

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
The Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) dismissed Miguel Ramos Flores' appeal from the Immigration Judge's (IJ's) decision denying his application for cancellation of removal, and denied his motion to reconsider. Ramos petitions for review. We have jurisdiction because the petition raises a "colorable" question of law. 8 U.S.C. § 1252(a)(2)(D); Mendez-Castro v. Mukasey, 552 F.3d 975, 978 (9th Cir.2009). Because the BIA applied the wrong legal standard to determine whether Ramos met his burden to establish eligibility for cancellation of removal, we grant the petition for review and remand.
The BIA found Ramos ineligible for cancellation of removal because Ramos failed to demonstrate that his U.S. citizen children or lawful permanent resident parents would experience "exceptional and extremely unusual hardship" as a result of his removal. See 8 U.S.C. § 1229b(b)(1)(D).
Ramos testified that, if he were removed, his children would remain in the United States. In evaluating his claim, the BIA and IJ relied on Perez v. INS, 96 F.3d 390 (9th Cir.1996) and Matter of Ige, 20 I. & N. Dec. 880 (BIA 1994). Those cases hold that, in order to establish hardship based on family separation, an alien must submit an affidavit stating that the family wall be separated if he is deported. Perez, 96 F.3d at 393; Matter of Ige, 20 I. & N. Dec, at 885. However, pursuant to Salcido-Salcido v. INS, 138 F.3d 1292, 1293 (9th Cir.1998) (per curiam), that per se evidentiary requirement does not apply where other evidence adequately shows that the family will be separated.
Because Perez and Ige were limited by Salcido-Salcido, the IJ and BIA erred by relying solely on those cases in evaluating whether Ramos had met his evidentiary burden. We therefore GRANT Ramos' petition and REMAND for the BIA to reconsider whether Ramos has established "exceptional and extremely unusual hardship" under the correct standard.
Because we find that the BIA erred by applying an incorrect legal standard, we do not reach the question whether the IJ violated Ramos' due process rights at his removal hearing.
GRANTED AND REMANDED.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.