Case Name: Napoleon Baldemor SANTA MARIA, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2010-05-19
Citations: 379 F. App'x 676
Docket Number: No. 05-76699
Parties: Napoleon Baldemor SANTA MARIA, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
Judges: Before: FRIEDMAN, D.W. NELSON, REINHARDT, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 379
Pages: 676–677

Head Matter:
Napoleon Baldemor SANTA MARIA, Petitioner, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
No. 05-76699.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Argued and Submitted April 8, 2010.
Filed May 19, 2010.
Katherine Lesley Curtis, Adila Law Group, Los Angeles, CA, Nancy Ellen Miller, Esquire, Law Offices of Reeves & Associates, Pasadena, CA, for Petitioner.
Ronald E. Lefevre, Office of the District Counsel Department of Homeland Security, San Francisco, CA, Erica Miles, Jane Tracey Schaffner, DOJ — U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Respondent.
Before: FRIEDMAN, D.W. NELSON, REINHARDT, Circuit Judges.
The Honorable Daniel M. Friedman, United States Circuit Judge for the Federal Circuit, sitting by designation.

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
Napoleon Baldemor Santa Maria petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals's ("BIA") decision adopting an immigration judge's ("IJ") determination that Santa Maria was not eligible to apply for a discretionary waiver of removal under 8 U.S.C. § 1227(a)(1)(H)®. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1252(a).
When the BIA cites Matter of Burbano, 20 I. & N. Dec. 872, 874 (BIA 1994), and does not disagree with any part of the IJ's decision, we review the IJ's opinion as if it were that of the BIA. Samayoa-Mar-tinez v. Holder, 558 F.3d 897, 899 (9th Cir.2009). We review questions of law de novo, except to the extent that deference is owed to the BIA's interpretation of its governing statutes and regulations. See Barrios v. Holder, 581 F.3d 849, 854 (9th Cir.2009.).
Section 1227(a)(l)(H)(i) relief is available only to an alien who "is the spouse, parent, son, or daughter of a citizen of the United States." Santa Maria's mother is a deceased United States citizen. We recently held that an individual whose mother is a United States citizen continues to be the son of a citizen of the United States, as that phrase is used in 8 U.S.C. § 1227(a)(l)(H)(i), after his mother's death. Federiso v. Holder, 605 F.3d 695 (9th Cir.2010). Federiso puts to rest any dispute as to whether Santa Maria is the son of a citizen of the United States per § 1227(a)(l)(H)(i). Santa Maria is therefore eligible to apply for § 1227(a)(l)(H)(i) relief, and the IJ and BIA erred by concluding otherwise.
PETITION GRANTED; REMANDED.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as pi'ovid-ed by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.