Case Name: Amadou Abdoulaye GAYE; Awa Ba, Petitioners, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2009-12-14
Citations: 358 F. App'x 918
Docket Number: No. 06-75399
Parties: Amadou Abdoulaye GAYE; Awa Ba, Petitioners, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
Judges: Before: ALARCÓN, TROTT, and TASHIMA, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 358
Pages: 918–919

Head Matter:
Amadou Abdoulaye GAYE; Awa Ba, Petitioners, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
No. 06-75399.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Submitted Nov. 17, 2009.
Filed Dec. 14, 2009.
Michael Franquinha, Aguirre Law Group APC, Phoenix, AZ, for Petitioners.
Ronald E. Lefevre, Office of the District Counsel, Department of Homeland Security, San Francisco, CA, Holly Smith, Esquire, Linda S. Wendtland, Esquire, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Respondent.
Before: ALARCÓN, TROTT, and TASHIMA, Circuit Judges.
The panel unanimously finds this case suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
Amadou Abdoulaye Gaye and Awa Ba, husband and wife and natives and citizens of Senegal, petition for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals' ("BIA") order dismissing their appeal from an immigration judge's ("IJ") decision denying their motion to continue and finding them deportable. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1252. We review for abuse of discretion the denial of a motion to continue, Sandoval-Luna v. Mukasey, 526 F.3d 1243, 1246 (9th Cir.2008) (per curiam), and we deny in part and grant in part the petition for review.
The agency did not abuse its discretion in denying petitioners' motion to continue where the IJ had previously granted a continuance, and petitioners' eligibility for a section 212(e) waiver was speculative. See id. at 1247 (denial of a motion to continue was not an abuse of discretion where proceedings had previously been continued and relief was not immediately available to petitioner). It follows that petitioners' due process claim fails. See Lata v. INS, 204 F.3d 1241, 1246 (9th Cir.2000) (requiring error to prevail on a due process claim).
We grant the parties' request that this case should be remanded for the BIA to address petitioners' eligibility for voluntary departure.
PETITION FOR REVIEW DENIED in part; GRANTED in part; REMANDED. Each party shall bear their own costs for this petition for review.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.