Case Name: Gilberta Alvarado TIZOC, Petitioner, v. Alberto R. GONZALES, Attorney General, Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2006-01-13
Citations: 161 F. App'x 734
Docket Number: No. 04-71612; Agency No. A75-681-468
Parties: Gilberta Alvarado TIZOC, Petitioner, v. Alberto R. GONZALES, Attorney General, Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 161
Pages: 734–735

Head Matter:
Gilberta Alvarado TIZOC, Petitioner, v. Alberto R. GONZALES, Attorney General, Respondent.
No. 04-71612.
Agency No. [ AXX-XXX-XXX ].
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Submitted Jan. 9, 2006.
Decided Jan. 13, 2006.
Gilberta Alvarado Tízoc, Bell, CA, pro se.
Western Region Immigration & Naturalization Service, Laguna Niguel, CA, Ronald E. Lefevre, Chief Legal Officer, Office of the District Counsel Department of Homeland Security, San Francisco, CA, David V. Bernal, Attorney, Jennifer Pais ner, DOJ — U.S. Department of Justice Civil Div./Office of Immigration Lit., Washington, DC, for Respondent.
Before HUG, O’SCANNLAIN, and SILVERMAN, Circuit Judges.
The panel unanimously finds this case suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
Gilberta Alvarado Tízoc, a native and citizen of Mexico, petitions pro se for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals' ("BIA") decision summarily affirming an immigration judge's ("IJ") order denying Tizoc's application for cancellation of removal. We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252. We review de novo the Id's determination of purely legal questions. Kankamalage v. INS, 335 F.3d 858, 861 (9th Cir.2003). We grant the petition for review and remand for further proceedings.
The IJ denied Tizoc's application for cancellation of removal solely on the basis that Tizoe's period of continuous physical presence was severed when she detained at the border and released after she left the United States for approximately 15 days to visit her father who was ill. Because Tizoc's brief detention and release at the border did not sever her period of continuous physical presence, see Tapia v. Gonzales, 430 F.3d 997, 1002-03 (9th Cir.2005), we grant the petition for review and remand to the BIA to remand to the IJ for further proceedings. On remand the IJ shall consider the merits of Tizoc's cancellation of removal claim, including whether she has established the requisite period of continuous physical presence. See INS v. Ventura, 537 U.S. 12, 16-18, 123 S.Ct. 353, 154 L.Ed.2d 272 (2002).
PETITION FOR REVIEW GRANTED; REMANDED.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and may not be cited to or by the courts of this circuit except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.